That's What People Do When They Find

The Tv Commercials, Which Are Endless And Fairly Crass, Gave Birth To Brock, The Bad-lawyer Character In Razor Girl. In Real Life You Can Find Even Sleazier Examples Than Him.

The Thieves Of Manhattan Is A Sly And Cutting Riff On The Book-publishing World That Is Quite Funny Unless You Happen To Be An Author, In Which Case The Novel Will Make You Consider A More Sensible Profession-like Being A Rodeo Clown, For Example, Or A Crab-fisherman In The Bering Sea.

You Can Do The Best Research And Be Making The Strongest Intellectual Argument, But If Readers Don't Get Past The Third Paragraph You've Wasted Your Energy And Valuable Ink.

Unfortunately, I Don't Get To Read Nearly As Much As I Want Because I'm Always Working On My Own Stuff, Either The Novels Or Newspaper Columns.

Here's My Rule: You Always Want To Pay Cash For Your Own Books, Because If They Look At The Name On The Credit Card And Then They Look At The Name On The Book Jacket, Then There's This Look Of Such Profound Sympathy For You That You Had To Resort To This. It Really Is Withering.