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weekend podcast

01/08/24 09:23

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Over the weekend, Pauline Frommer interviewed me about my new memoir. I was the second guest on the show, so while waiting to hear me you can learn about finding cheap airfares.

https://www.frommers.com/podcast 

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No phrase better describes the experience of listening to Christmas music on the radio, where you can go from "Once in Royal David's City" to "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer," from "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" to "I Saw Three Ships A Sailing."

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Sunday’s New York Times Book Review listed the best books of the year in various categories, including Thrillers, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, and Crime. It mixed genres I have very little interest in with genres I have absolutely no interest in.

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Florida Man

12/08/23 08:58

The Winter issue of The American Scholar is now out, with my essay "Florida Man." It is a defense of the state against the people outside it who continue to make fun of it and the writers inside it who insist on sensationalizing it. The full essay is not yet online, but here is the beginning: https://theamericanscholar.org/florida-man/

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mad about Mangan

08/08/23 08:20

We finished the third and final season of The Split last night, a British series about a family – mother and three daughters – all but one of whom specializes in family law (though not family harmony). It features Nicola Walker, who seems to be in every British series, and Stephen Mangan, who should be.

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My post criticizing the new plaza on Las Olas Boulevard appeared yesterday in the Sun-Sentinel as a Letter to the Editor. I heard from two friends and a woman who used to read me in the Travel section.

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