Barry's Long March...

...is proving much more pleasant than Mao's. Editor Simon revealed today that my mongrel will be at #7 in the London Sunday Times list this Sunday. Yowsa!



While emceeing the National Book Awards, Steve Martin got off a good line or two. While presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Phillip Roth, he quipped, "If he's so great, where's his Golden Globe, his Emmy, his house's layout in In Style magazine? And if he's so great, where’s his hit sitcom, `Philip'?"



Tomorrow to uh, celebrate the 39th anniversary of JFK's assassination, NPR will air new recordings that were sent to Kennedy's cabinet that day, as they were en route to a conference in Japan. It's must listening for Oliver Stone, and myself. Did you ever hear what the CIA said when confronted with the fact that an agent named "George Bush" was in Dallas that day? "That's a lie!...Okay, it's not! But it was a different George Bush!"



If something happens to me on the way to my reading, IT WAS NO ACCIDENT.