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One-Man Book Club: My pals are writing books faster than I can GIVE YOU A FREE COPY!

April 22, 2011 by Hank Stuever 4 Comments

Book luvvers, the One-Man Book Club has some friends and they have been — I believe the term busy as shit applies here, writing some very good books. I’ve got my own copies and if you’re lucky I’m going to give you yours. But really what I want you to do is go out an’ buy one. Hardcover is nice; e-book works too.

I’ve not read all of these yet, but you can bet I intend to. If I wait until I do, then I’ll miss the wave of woot-woot that has accompanied each of these. Let’s get to it. Here are the rules:

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Tom the Butcher examines Tinsel

December 7, 2009 by Hank Stuever Leave a Comment

sam-graduation-move-to-tally-tom-portraits-038-150x150Over at the Story Surgeons blog, my friend Tom Shroder has filed an interesting little dissection of Tinsel and what he thinks makes it tick, with a short excerpt. Tom is known to some as Weingarten’s beloved and alternately loathed “Tom the Butcher.” So many of us had the pleasure (seriously, a pleasure, even in tense moments) of being edited by Tom. He conceived of and edited my “Question Celebrity” column in the Washington Post Magazine from 2004-07, and the only thing I miss about that column was getting to gab for a few minutes with Tom once a week as we tried to make sense of, say, Britney’s and Lindsay’s va-jay-jay/limo incidents.

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