That’s a quote from my friend and colleague Chip Rowe, writing on the Playboy blog in praise of The Coup. It’s quite gratifying to have this compliment from this source, since Chip, who writes the Playboy Advisor column, has read more than a few breast descriptions in his day, and has some authority in this …
Folks in Buffalo certainly know a thing or two about taking shots at political figures; after all, Buffalo was where William McKinley got shot in 1901. Thus it was particularly gratifying to read Gene Warner‘s review in The Buffalo News on Sunday: “If you revere all things Washington, including the “public servants” of our universe, …
“An outrageous piece of work that should cause a slew of inappropriate public laughter,” enthused William Georgiades in Sunday’s New York Post. “Perfect nonsense sprinkled with bitter truths, much like Spy used to be back in those funny, funny years.” Thanks, Will. It’s hard to think of a compliment that pleases me more than one …
If you want to know why we should have stayed out of Iraq, perhaps you should ask an expert—someone known for his steadiness, sound judgment, and knowledge of military and intelligence issues. Someone, perhaps, like—Dick Cheney! This interview ran on C-SPAN on 1994. Clearly Dick Cheney knew what he was talking about. Dick Cheney should …
The Lives of Others, one of our favorite films from this past year, has just come out on DVD. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the movie is about the cheapening of life in a police state, and, not so incidentally, how simple acts of courage can inspire others to take a stand. …
Thanks to Barnes and Noble Astor Place, which hosted a reading for me on August 14th. It’s always flattering to a giantish picture of yourself in a store window. A special thanks to Paul for arranging things and introducing me, and to my friends Marilyn Haft, Judy Arthur, Joanne Gruber, Carol Vinzant, Carolyn Pilkington and …
It’s very hard to sit through No End In Sight (see the trailer here), the new documentary by Charles Ferguson about the American misadventure in Iraq, and not feel deeply dismayed. In a series of interviews with soldiers and diplomats and policy makers who desired nothing more than to fulfill the president’s goal of free …
Had a terrific interview on Bloomberg Night Talk with Mike Schneider on August 7. We discussed the book, satire, art imitating life, and working at Playboy. I’m thrilled that they invited me. Me, holding forth on Night Talk. Mike Schneider and me on Night Talk. I love being framed with financial data.
Fredericksburg, the beautiful Virginia town on the banks of the Rapidan where North and South clashed in December 1862, is also the home of a newspaper called The Free Lance Star, where Ashley Messenger has written an encouraging review of The Coup. “Sometimes it’s hard to tell who to cheer for though, the dopey president, …
From a review by Louis Bayard in the July 31st edition of the Post: “Jamie Malanowski’s satirical novel will be required summer reading for C-SPAN watchers, who will happily sniff out the veiled allusions to, oh, Dennis Hastert, Sam Donaldson, Arlen Specter, Michael Beschloss, Peggy Noonan, Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, Matt Drudge and on and …