My Life and Thoughts

Dear readers!  I cannot sufficiently thank all those of you who helped get The Possessed onto the Amazon top 100 list and keep it there for the past 4 days!  On Wednesday it rose as high as number 24, which literally made my head explode.  In good news for my head, we’re currently down to 98, close on the heels of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler, author of Are You There God?  It’s Me, Vodka.

For those who would like to give Ms. Handler a run for her money, but are inclined to despondency and thoughts like, “But what can I do to help?”, may I suggest writing a review on Amazon?  Reviews would be particularly welcome from anyone who read the book, or saw a copy of it somewhere, and either (a) liked it, (b) disliked it, or (c) noticed anything about it at all other than its availability on Kindle.At the present time of writing, there are exactly six customer reviews, of which these two have been voted most helpful:

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By guest-blogger Peli Grietzer

Just give it to us straight, Ezra Koenig. Are you saying rich girls deserve their money, or are you saying rich girls are dumb whores? Do you taunt the 57% of America that can’t take real summer vacations, or do you mock the 43% that go on holidays? Was “Mansard Roof” an endorsement of roofs or an anti-roof satire?

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My first two guest posts, CSI Pushkin’s House and Pushkin Reloaded, are currently up at the New Yorker Book Bench.  Many many thanks to super book-blogger Macy Halford for her kind endorsement of my hardest-working intern!  Thanks also to Gideon Lewis-Kraus and the unstoppable Dave Lull for alerting me to the unfolding story of Pushkin’s sofa.

Coming up very soon: a stirring defense of weekends by my own guest-blogger, Peli Grietzer.  A nous deux, Slate—history will decide which of us made the right call on this one.

Pushkin’s sofa	Pushkin sofa

Many thanks to all who ordered The Possessed,which has, at the time of writing, edged ahead of the greatest novel ever written to #1 on the Amazon Russian bestsellers list! After a long, hard week, my interns are finally enjoying some R&R.

Enjoy, guys—you deserve it!

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Auspicious news for my interns just in from Amazon, via an honored reader.   Thank you for your support!