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And so I discover my designer
Do you remember our little debate seven months ago (that long!), about the design on my book’s jacket cover? As usual, you didn’t hold back. (And may that never change!) Thus dafna, for example: … it...
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Hannibal & Me: The excerpt in Salon.com
What a very, very strange experience it is to see an excerpt of my own book on a famous website. Salon.com has just posted exactly that. Thank you, Salon!Filed under: Books, Carthage, disaster,...
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Life reversals: the case of the White Moustache
And now: something completely different, and much more important — indeed, rather uplifting, in the spirit of the season. We are, obviously, talking about … yogurt. Way back in May, I wrote a story in...
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Silver in the mine, jade unpolished
For the holidays, I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes, which is by Benjamin Franklin: Genius without education is like silver in the mine. And because all grand thoughts are timeless, they...
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A sort-of memoir
Los Angeles Magazine, a sophisticated West-Coast glossy, has just put Hannibal and Me on its “reading list” for January. I’m in the non-fiction category, obviously. More interesting is perhaps the...
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Dealing with disaster
Chapter 7 in Hannibal and Me is titled “Dealing with disaster”. So, how does the Hannibalic story tell us to deal with it? First, a reminder about the premise of my book: I use stories of real people...
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Thoughts (not mine) over coffee before 7AM
My wife and I just got a heart-warming email from an old friend (who shall remain anonymous), with just the sort of thoughtful, soulful reaction to my book that I was aiming for when writing it: Wow....
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Off I go on radio and telly…
So tomorrow (January 5th) is the launch date, which means that you Kindlers and Nookers will get your book, and you Hard-copiers will get the Amazon or B&N shipping confirmation. And, of course,...
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Dylan Ratigan and I, the backstory
So here are my five minutes on MSNBC with Dylan Ratigan. And here is the backstory: I had made a beginner’s mistake: Yesterday, I got a bit of redness above my right eye, eczema or something, as I...
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The 4th review: New York Journal of Books
Wow. Just wow. What can I possibly say? The New York Journal of Books has now reviewed Hannibal and Me. (Remember, the previous reviews were by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist) I will...
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The 10-minute chat
One of you (Thank You!) texted in the picture above, taken in a Manhattan Barnes & Noble outlet. There it is, that bright orange jacket, hard to miss. Unfortunately, I did not, yesterday, find any...
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Strategy & Taoism: the chess master’s view
Some of the first reactions to my book are now streaming in, which is enormously suspenseful for me. You are each projecting yourself into the stories in my book, each finding completely new ways of...
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Talking with Fiammetta about Hannibal & Me
Here is an 8-minute podcast of a chat between Fiammetta Rocco, our Books & Arts editor at The Economist, and me, about Hannibal and Me. We were all over the place in our actual conversation, but...
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Jack Covert likes my storytelling
Jack Covert, the founder of 800-CEO-READ (America’s leading direct supplier of business literature to companies and organizations) and a sort of bestseller-prophet, has “selected” (ie, recommended)...
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Hannibal and Me … and Mr Crotchety
There are reviewers, and then there are reviewers. And then there is … Mr Crotchety. Who is Mr Crotchety?, you ask. He (and I am reasonably confident that he is indeed both human and male, as allegedly...
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‘Drinks with’ me on Zocalo Public Square
Andres Martinez is a great journalist, writer and now think-tanker. And he’s had a career of Sophoclean ups and downs that could have been a storyline in my book. He and I had drinks the other day. Now...
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Hannibal and Me in Bogota, Colombia
I just received the following email from one Matt Aaron, and it’s the sort of spontaneous, casual and genuine feedback that makes authors happy: I just finished the audio version of Hannibal and Me...
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The review in the Wall Street Journal
The review in the Wall Street Journal is now out, and it is the 7th or 8th review by my count. (I try to keep the list current here.) Philip Delves Broughton is the reviewer, and he has grouped my...
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The review in the Washington Post
Well, it’s a busy day for reviews of Hannibal and Me. After the Wall Street Journal’s review, also today, the Washington Post has now weighed in, with a very short but sweet take. That’s now the 8th or...
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LA Magazine’s “Best of the West”
Jason Kehe at Los Angeles Magazine has chosen his four Critic’s Picks for January, and Hannibal and Me is “Best of the West”. He’s also captured the same issue with “genre bending” that Andres...
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