LINKED!
Very happy to see that Duane Swierczynski‘s interview with me has been posted at Author Interviews.
THE READING AT ROBIN’S
Thanks to the folks at Robin’s Bookstore in Philadelphia for holding a reading for me. Ray Garman (below left) and his colleagues were very helpful. He has promised to send a recording of the event–which I hope captures the sound of what can only be described as a mini-festival–cheers, applause, horns–that broke out in the …
MAIL CALL!
Michael White runs a daily amusing caption contest at his site mypalmike.com, and thus it came as almost no surprise when he was one of the winners of the amusing New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest (one of a series) that my friend Daniel Radosh runs on his site, radosh.net. As it happens, Michael’s prize was …
LOVED IN LINCOLN
Calling The Coup “a political comedy thriller” (“That has to be a whole new category of novels!”), environmental historian Francis Moul gives the book an enthusiastic thumbs-up in the Lincoln, NE, Journal Star. “ A good read!”, says he. Thanks, Francis!
GEOFFREY THE GENEROUS
Peerless fashion publicist Geoffrey Saunders not only gave me the beautiful pink Massimo Bizzocchi tie that I wore at my Playboy party in July (see earlier posts), but he voluntarily and without prodding posted a review of The Coup on the Barnes & Noble website, bn.com. Calling it `DC Backstabbing at its Best’, Geoffrey calls …
AND YOUR SPECIAL GUEST HOST WILL BE. . .
I’m delighted to report that the special host for the Robin’s reading in Philadelphia will be Duane Swierczynski. Duane not only happens to be the editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia City Paper, and is not only a fellow graduate of La Salle (I’m so much older than Duane that when I graduated from the school, it …
A READING IN PHILADELPHIA
The folks at Robin’s Bookstore in Philadelphia have invited me to have a reading at their store at 108 S. 13th Street on November 3rd at 3 PM. On their website is just the most complimentary description of The Coup. “In the same way Christopher Buckley‘s Thank You For Smoking put the blatant immorality of …
THE PAGE 99 TEST
Marshal Zeringue, a writer and an advocate for writers, recently linked the interview that I did with Rick Atkinson a couple of weeks to a go to a blog he edits called, in a no-frills sort of way, Author Interviews. Marshall also edits several other blogs, including Campaign for the American Reader, Writers Read, and …
AND NOW A WORD ABOUT THE REAL VICE PRESIDENT. . .
For the curious among you, here’s my review from The Washington Monthly of Stephen F. Hayes‘ incurious and unpenetrating biography of our vice president, Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. Bottom line: wait a couple years for a real biography to come out.
PICKING ON ME
Jim Agnew, monitor of the literary world, made The Coup `Pick of the Day’ on October 9th. Thanks, Jim. That’s always going to be our special day.