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 …
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.
My mother-in-law, Marie Jackson of Commerce City, Colorado, is one of the world’s friendliest women. Recently, she was in her local library, and, overcome by an irresistible urge to boost her son-in-law, she told the librarian that I had recently published The Coup. Right away, the librarian looked up the book in some super-exclusive data …
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 …
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 …