Had a lovely time today talking to Matthew Weiner, the Executive Producer of Mad Men, the most excellent AMC series. I was talking to Weiner for USA Weekend about The Apartment, the Billy Wilder classic now in a Collectors’ Edition DVD. Weiner was so smart and articulate about the film, and very generous with his …
I was thrilled to receive a note from my old friend from college Ron Hull, who had seen The Coup mentioned in LaSalle’s alumni notes. Ron, as it turns out, is Senior Counsel at Underberg & Kessler, a law firm in Rochester NY, where he specializes environmental law. In 2007, Ron was named by Law …
I received a wonderful and totally unexpected Christmas present the other day when I got this note from a writer in Los Angeles named Chris Farnsworth. “Mr. Malanowski,” he begins. “I don’t usually write the authors of books to tell them how much I enjoyed their works — I’m a writer also, and I’m usually …
Dana Milbank, a correspondent for The Washington Post, has just published Homo Politicus, a smart and very funny tour d’horizon of Washington and the people there who run our government. In the book, Milbank adopts the guise of an anthropologist to examine their culture and behavior, a very clever and revealing way to think afresh …
David Weinstein of Carle Place, Long Island, has written a largely favorable review of The Coup on epinions.com. An apparently unstoppable reading machine, this review is but one of 167 commentaries that he has posted, critiques that have earned him the trust of 69 members of the community (although it’s not clear whether one review …
Among the contributors to The Concord Monitor of New Hampshire who last week were asked to name their favorite books of the year was my friend Rebecca Lavoie, who nominated The Coup. “In an age in which satire seems almost superfluous,” writes Rebecca, “The Coup manages the near-impossible, delivering a satisfying and indulgent fictional spin …
Brian Sorgatz is a freelance writer from Sacramento. Since he maintains a website called Reflections on Playboy (because, he says, he “flatters myself to think that Kendra Wilkinson might call this blog intellectual pimping”), his work is well-known in these precincts–Brian pays my colleagues and me the tremendous compliment of paying close attention to what …
So it is President Jack Mahone? Or is it Prime Minister Adam Lang? A website called The Rap Sheet, edited by J. Kingston Pierce, points out that the same stock image shot by photographer Mike Powell is used both on the cover of The Coup, and on the cover of Robert Harris‘s new political thriller, …
I don’t think Norman Mailer made me want to be a writer, but I know Norman Mailer made me think being a writer could be exciting. My parents subscribed to Life and Time and Newsweek, and Mailer was a fixture in their pages, as a subject and contributor (it’s hard to imagine Time and Newsweek …
Very happy to see that Duane Swierczynski‘s interview with me has been posted at Author Interviews.