Posting on the website grassrootsandgranite.com, (a New Hampshire website devoted “to all things political”) the perceptive commentator Rebecca Lavoie (of course I would think her perceptive, but you’ll see the objective accuracy of my opinion in coming days when you read her My Turn column in Newsweek, which has nothing to do with me) compliments …
Rob Marchant has labeled me “a well-versed observer of the dark arts practiced in the corridors of power’’ who possesses “an interest in the scheming, ambitious, grandiose side of American life.’’ Rob, flattery will get you everywhere. In a complimentary profile on front page story in Sunday’s Journal News—the big Gannett paper in Westchester County, …
Thanks to The American Way, the in-flight magazine of my new favorite airline American Airlines, for a very enthusiastic review of The Coup. I encourage everyone to board a plane–perhaps to go to Cleveland, to root on the Yanks–to show their appreciation for American’s discerning support for the literary arts.
On the website thecheckplease (which I am reliably informed is based “as of now” in Illinois, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland, New York, and California), the satirist E.F. Watley has written a very complimentary piece about me and The Coup, which he calls my “most ambitious effort to date, a more sophisticated and viciously imagined world …
Praise is always welcome, but that’s especially true when it comes from someone who really knows what he is talking about. That’s why I’m especially pleased to have received admiring acknowledgments from Ben Cheever, himself a writer of critically acclaimed fiction and non-fiction (his latest book, Strides: Running Through History With An Unlikely Athlete, was …
On a clammy, sweet Central Park Saturday evening, the New York Shakespeare Festival celebrated the 40th anniversary of he musical Hair with the first of a three performance revival. Many in the crowd that was well-mixed between genuine youths and paunchier, grayer veterans youths who were in their salad days when Hair was in its …
There are a lot of unexpected pleasures that come from publishing a book, chief among them the realization that you’re reaching people far far away. One such person is Philip Cu-Unjieng, the book (and apparently hair-styling) critic of the Philippine Star, out of Manila. After describing the excellent cut he received from RJ Decena at …
Sure, I’m a macho guy who watches the NFL and FX-TV, but like everybody, once in a while I need a god cry. Whenever I do, I head straight for Lifetime TV, or to its website LifetimeTV.com. There, to my surprise and delight, my former colleague at Playboy Patti Lamberti has written a wonderful review …
I don’t think anything I’ve ever written has been compared to a pale ale before, but it turns out not to be unpleasant. Claire Ernsberger wrote this review in the Sullivan County [NY] Democrat : THE COUP by Jamie Malanowski (Doubleday). This is excellent timing–a comic political thriller. The vice president thinks he ought to …
Many thanks to Don Wilde for having me on his television program What’s Happening in Briarcliff. We spent a fast-moving half hour talking about The Coup, what’s it like to work at Playboy, the differences between writing for magazines and television, and other subjects. The best part of the experience was getting to know Don …