The book party. I’m still exhausted.

Not a lot of dish from my book party to report (I know you keep waiting for more news of Style section brawls), but the only real dish from Wednesday night is, of course, the scrumptious serving that is Ann Gerhart in that red-and-green sequined mini-dress. Va-va-voom! (And readers, she flew in from Fort Hood!)…

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Hear the Baby Jesus cryin’ Ho-Ho-Ho!

I like this one. Let’s get frantic and wild and self-promotional — it’s Official Pub Date Eve! The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c A Colbert Christmas: Another Christmas Song www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating

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This Sunday, Nov. 15: Politics & Prose reading

If you live in Washington, please come to my reading this Sunday, Nov. 15, at Politics & Prose. It starts nice and early, at 5 p.m., and I promise to try to make it fun. Some people have asked: Can I bring my kid? People, I am not putting on a Christmas puppet show here.…

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Go big or go home. (Or option 3: Go smartass!)

Many people in the last few days have sent me a link to this picture from failblog of the “Ditto” house: It’s great, isn’t it? I take it the photo is real. (What? This is a blog. If you think I’m gonna take 10 minutes to Snopes this thing out, you’ve got another thing coming.)…

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Mary, Did You Know …

… that this isn’t just a blog, but a whole web site? Click anywhere up in the banner above and you’ll be shuffled off to the Hank Stuever home page. That’s by design. There ye shall find ALL the book tour information you’ll need; you can take my Christmas shopping survey (please!); you can look…

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Does this wrapping paper make me look fat?

My interview with Metro Weekly comes out today (Thursday), and Good Lord, I’m on the cover. I look like a Christmas burrito! (Hey, New Mexico people: I’m red and green. And delish.) There’s also a really good, long Q&A interview by Sean Bugg. Reading it, I’m amazed at how much I told Sean (he’s that…

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Entertainment Weekly: I gotta B.

Entertainment Weekly reviews Tinsel in the new issue. The review is pretty good — I got a B. Which is right in line with my lifetime GPA, so I’m just going to have to own it, what with my “meandering snark” and all. (On the last book they gave me an A. Remember? “A master…

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On a tear!

Metro Weekly wrapped me up real good for their cover this week. (It comes out Thursday.) Todd Franson did a great job and we had lots of fun. Finally, after, oh, five gazillion shots, I got to bust out!

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Give like Santa, save like Scrooge

That’s J.C. Penney’s slogan to get the retail season started — which, if you ask me, sort suuu-hucks. Nothing backfires in the fraught territory of gift-giving like the word Scrooge. This slogan, to me, says This year, be as cheap as you can. The Plano-based company has had some crappy quarters for the last year…

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Coughstucker

To answer the question all my journo friends have been asking me for the last three days: Yes, I saw the whole thing (the verbal and then physical fray Friday night, right on deadline, between an editor and writer in the Style section) and yes, I have many thoughts about it, and no, I won’t…

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