There’s a piece running in the Talk of the Town section of the Oct. 1 issue of The New Yorker about the unusual linkes between three members of Congress much in the news lately: Ted Stevens, Larry Craig, and Duke Cunningham. Check it out here. Or you can read Wonkette’s colorful take here.
If you happen to be in LA, I’ll be speaking at Dutton’s Brentwood Books at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27. Hope to see you there.
I’ve been busy with freelance assignments of late, but a Q&A I did with Freakonomics, the bestselling economics book by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, is posted online today at the website of The New York Times, which bought the blog last month. I highly recommend the book, as it is a novel way of looking discovering hidden relationships through economics (it’s the reason why the old swimming pool at my house is buried under a few tons of dirt). The online discussion takes a look at Congress through the framework of corruption, along some of the interesting history of congressional graft.
I’ll be appearing this weekend on CSPAN’s Book TV. My taped appearance at Borders in San Diego last month will air at 7 p.m. PST on Saturday, September 8th. It was a pretty interesting reading. Two of Cunningham’s former commanding officers at Top Gun showed up and one them had quite a bit to say. I even had a heckler!
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