I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
Basie: What did you say your name was boy? Jamie: Jamie and I'm building a man-flying kite and writing a book called Contract Bridge. Basie: Jim a new name for a new life.
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