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.
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 …
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 …
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!
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.