Whatever 21 wants, Kindred gives

Magically appeared in the Kindle. Can't wait to get to it.

 

I have three backed up that I need to read -- I've been on page 80 of "1960" for about two years -- but this book, I have to get and I have to read, simple as that...

 

And I wasn't lying. Just ordered from Amazon. Dave: Cha-ching!

 

I've reserved a copy from the Toronto Public Library. Can't wait.

 

I'm first in line at my place. Just fervently hoping it's warts-and-all, i. e.
Katy Graham's utter snobbery, etc., etc.

 

I'm the same way, STG. I've got a bookshelf chock-full of these books, including Richard Kluger's excellent "The Paper. the Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune."

This one will join those as soon as I can get back to B&N.

 

I've never heard of Kluger's, Birdscribe, but want to find it, as there are a lot of great stories about the Herald Tribune in some of those other ones, like the Esquire history. Always seemed like it was an influential paper that had a lot of great talent come through. And I forgot one of the most famous ones, which is always worth a read: The Kingdom and the Power by Gay Talese.

 

The book arrived today, Dave, and since we had at least one five-minute phone conversation while you were writing it, and at least two e-mail exchanges, I'm really hurt not to see my name in the index.

 

STG, have you read "The City Room" by Arthur Gelb?

 

Dave,
Now that you've written a book she's asked for, she'd like you to go to her family's Thanksgiving dinner, since it's already been established you can't turn her down.

 

Now THERE's a book!

 

My Amazon order arrived here in Melbourne, Australia last night and I tore through 60 pages. What a subject and what a writer. Kindred is so good I think he could describe a heartbeat