Sure, I’m a macho guy who watches the NFL and FX-TV, but like everybody, once in a while I need a god cry. Whenever I do, I head straight for Lifetime TV, or to its website LifetimeTV.com. There, to my surprise and delight, my former colleague at Playboy Patti Lamberti has written a wonderful review …
I don’t think anything I’ve ever written has been compared to a pale ale before, but it turns out not to be unpleasant. Claire Ernsberger wrote this review in the Sullivan County [NY] Democrat : THE COUP by Jamie Malanowski (Doubleday). This is excellent timing–a comic political thriller. The vice president thinks he ought to …
Many thanks to Don Wilde for having me on his television program What’s Happening in Briarcliff. We spent a fast-moving half hour talking about The Coup, what’s it like to work at Playboy, the differences between writing for magazines and television, and other subjects. The best part of the experience was getting to know Don …
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 …
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 …
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 …