Paperback!

AROTL is just out in paperback, and it looks, well, more bendable than the hardcover. I was a little dismayed to see that none of the corrections I had sent in to Bloomsbury made it into the book. Okay, I was more than a little disappointed. I was a little miffed. Okay, I was more than a little miffed. I was a little extremely pissed.

But enough of that. I gave a reading at Moe’s Bookstore in Berkeley last week, and the turnout was very nice. Friends came, but so did a few strangers, too. My friend Mark Seiden was there, and he asked the best question I’ve ever been asked during a reading: “What about those G.I. uprights that Steinway dropped by parachute for use by troops during World War II?”

Another nice highlight of the paperback so far has been a radio interview where Anthony Wright, the interviewer, actually came to my house and set up his equipment on my dining room table. I served him tea, and we chatted — into microphones. The interview will air on Anthony’s show, Attunement, on KWMR, the community radio station in Point Reyes Station.

Here’s Anthony with his equipment: