Yeah, I know. My book is coming out now, and I haven’t been blogging. It’s pathetic. It’s unforgivable. Maybe I really am a slacker, after all.

But I’ve been busy, okay? Which is good, right? I contributed a Book Notes playlist to one of my favorite sites, Largehearted Boy, and a Q&A to Powell’s City of Books, one of the greatest stores in the world, where I’ll be doing a reading on April 10th.

Last weekend Jason Boog from The Publishing Spot took the train to my house with his lovely girlfriend, Caitlin Shamberg, and they shot video footage of me walking around town and shifting around uncomfortably on camera while I talked about the music that I tend to play when I’m writing. (Usually stuff from Miles Davis’ spectral Seventies art/funk phase and Brian Eno’s pinging-pianos-in-the-ether ambient records — stuff without words, because hearing extra words can be a problem when you’re trying to put words together.) That should be up in a matter of days.


On Thursday night, the 27th, Dan Peres, my boss at Details, threw a party for me at Elaine’s, the storied Upper East Side literary haunt, and because I have long considered name-dropping to be transparently tacky and self-aggrandizing, I certainly won’t do that here. Although, shoot, I should probably point out that Sloane Crosley was there, and she’s every bit as nice as everyone says. (Damn millennials.) Geoff Dyer happened to be in town from England, and he dropped by. So did Mark Harris and Tony Kushner. Oh, and David Browne . And Dean & Britta. Ahem. Look, this is the only chance I’m ever going to have to look cool, so I’m taking advantage of it, all right?


Sadly it seems that nobody took pictures, so you’ll have to take my word for it. All I have as evidence is this zonked iMac self-portrait, snapped at about midnight after the party, when I was staring at the computer, kicking myself for having drunk too much vodka, and contemplating how I really, really needed to blog. Which I did not wind up doing.




Denver likes me. Thank you, Denver, and thank you, Scott Yates .


I’ll talk about X Saves the World on the Leonard Lopate show on WNYC on Monday morning. Please listen. Lopate’s a legend. And if you happen to be in the New York area, come on down to the Barnes & Noble in Tribeca that same evening to get a signed book and a hug. Really. I think it’s important that we hug.

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