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 published by Rodale on September 18th.) Ben is also the host of a television program called On Writing, and last week I was his guest. We spent a merry half-hour discussing The Coup, satire, politics, my complicated main character Godwin Pope, and, somehow, good and evil. Whew! Thanks, Ben–it was a lot of fun.
