"A Novel Take on an Ending"

Richard Russo imagines Eliot Spitzer as a
fictional protagonist.

News About Farseed

My novel Farseed has been selected by the New York Public Library for their annual Books for the Teen Age list. An exhibition of all of the selected best books will be held at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City on Saturday, March 22nd, from 12:30 to 4:00 pm.

Spitzer's Loss is Wall Street's Gain

So says Robert Scheer in words of wisdom that you can read here about recent events in my home town.

Update: Glenn Greenwald has more.

No Kids

Via Ezra Klein, I found this provocatively titled and subtitled piece by Ronald Bailey: Why Are People Having Fewer Kids? Perhaps it's because they don't like them very much."

My thought is that it's because having kids is basically regarded as an extremely expensive hobby, at least in the U.S., with its lack of any real support for parents, but never mind.

Grouchy Old Men

After enduring Tim "Pumpkinhead" Russert's inane "gotcha" questions on last night's Democratic debate, I was kind of in the mood for this piece by Garrison Keillor.