Writer. Books include The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, The Perfectionists. And, published last April, and to generous reviews, KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW.
The Berkshires, Massachusetts
Joined June 2012
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No politics whatsoever in this short talk I gave lately to the #AmericanPrecision #Museum in #Windsor, Vermont. It might offer you a little respite from all the sturm und drang going on outside - and the APM is a truly wonderful organisation. woa-tv.org/special-events/
Busy day ahead. 1030am in Norfolk, CT, interviewing on stage the great publisher and author #MichaelKorda, then at 430pm in New Marlborough, MA, the equally distinguished Supreme Court writer #LindaGreenhouse. Then a promised good dinner. Late rising on Sunday, with any luck.
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Watch Stephanie Ruhle stuff insufferable, undecided NY Times writer Bret Stephens into a fucking locker on Bill Maher's show.
This is EXCELLENT. 👏👏
My #Hangul is somewhat rusty, but this #Korean edition of my most recent book, just published in #Seoul looks elegant and tempting, so I wish it well in bookstores from #Jeju to the #DMZ, and everywhere in between.
Great advertisements of your book, Knowing What We Know, showing up in Korea for the Korean language edition @simonwwriter
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To mark the #DemocraticConvention #DNC2024 #DNC we've had fun adapting @Eddy_Grant's gloriously hopeful international anti-apartheid anthem from 1988.
So here's 🎶 "Gimme Hope Kamala" - a parody twist about @KamalaHarris 💙 vs #DonaldTrump 🍊 that pulls no punches.
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies..." A sad day: two dear friends of many years died. Pip Rau - Londoners may recall her Islington shop Rau, selling Afghan treasures - & the formidable Lewis Lapham, late of #Harper's and LQ. When life looks briefly better, this...
It beggars belief that a person so entirely misguided and wanting in common sense as this person should have ever won prominence in US politics. She makes Marjorie Taylor Greene look like an intellectual. May Biden step down, a new candidate win, and sweep these ruffians away.
If you have a spare few moments, you might care to dip into this chat I had with the great Phillip Adams, who retires in a very few days. He is one of Australia's deservedly best-beloved figures, and I am flattered that he included me on his final roster. abc.net.au/listen/programs/l…
