Amazon Likes Me More Than Bob Dylan!

Apparently The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane! has made Amazon’s Top 10 list for pop culture books. My tribute to ’70s Hollywood may lag behind the Beatles, Tab Hunter, Chip Kidd, hip-hop and Star Wars, but I’m ahead of Bob Dylan, KCRW’s Nic Harcourt (whose “Morning Becomes Eclectic” podcasts I get regularly), and the guy who took pictures of all his food.

If you want to find out more about the book, I was interviewed by S.T. VanAirsdale of The Reeler, an excellent NYC film blog. He loves the book, but not blindly, and his mild criticisms are well taken. Hell, if the worst anybody says about Stewardess! is that it’s overambitious, I’ve gotten off lucky!

18 November 2005 | uncategorized |

Interview Roundup

• James Ellroy wins the Jack Webb Award for “[advancing] the gloriously deserved positive image of the Los Angeles Police Department,” and talks with the National Review about the honor and why the city’s cops get a bad rap.

• Jonathan Lethem’s going to be at Makor next month, and he discusses short story writing with the 92Y bloggers, along with the Mets, Marvel comics, and why he wrote his Brooklyn novels outside the city: “There’s something about the slight feeling of exile that brings my imaginative relationship with this place to life.”

• Rachel Kramer Bussel was doing interviews at Gothamist all last week, and I’m just now catching up with her conversations with Elizabeth Merrick and Julia Powell.

16 November 2005 | interviews, uncategorized |