The Watergate editor and the society legend: A loving look at them by their son who lives ‘A Different Life’
The Solomon Scandals is not about the Washington Post. I invented not just a D.C. newspaper but also a presidential
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Last hurrah for newspaper movies? ‘State of Play’ opens this week
Well, for an opener, State of Play is a variant on His Girl Friday in a one way at least.
Lobbyists profiting off stimulus package
In The Solomon Scandals, reporter Jon Stone’s father works for a lobbying and PR firm in Washington. Among its clients?
‘Indignation,’ by Philip Roth: A belated review
Although verbose in places, Indignation is witty and engrossing with wonderful caricatures. I spent time in Northern Ohio eons ago,
What Epublishers Weekly says about ‘Scandals’
Below are excerpts from Michael Pastore’s review in Epublishers Weekly. “Three things about this novel impressed me. Real settings (D.C.
Like the old whalers
The Solomon Scandals is a little like a novel that a 19th century writer might have written on whaling. In
‘Page-turner’? Or ‘page-tapper’? Just what do you call an e-novel you like?
In a review of The Solomon Scandals for the Washington City Paper, Ted Scheinman said, “It’s hard to call an
The IRS as fodder for David Foster Wallace and me
In my little overview of D.C. fiction, I quoted Jeffrey Charis-Carlson, a specialist in this area: "It takes a great
A ‘snarky’ critique of modern humor? What would Saul Alinsky have thought? Or Lewis Carroll?
Several kinds of snarks exist in Lewis Carroll‘s poem The Hunting of The Snark (free online). Certain of these creatures
David Rothman at Large 