My friend Jeff Frank's hilarious new comic novel about the travails of a Washington hostess, Trudy Hopedale, is out now and I've been happily devouring it over the last two days. Jeff's previous two novels, The Columnist and Bad Publicity, are also about Washington, media and the social dynamics intrinsic to both, and they're screamingly funny. If you like Chris Buckley, this is probably up your alley.
Update to the previous post: Slate liked the TAM article and chose it for their weekly syndication to the Washington Post, where it appeared yesterday. Reaction to it has been mixed: Fray readers hate it (or more specifically, hate me); WaPo emailers love it. Interestingly, emails from Brazilians were overwhelmingly positive, which is not what I expected, but a pleasant surprise.
Posted by Elizabeth Spiers at July 23, 2007 8:40 PM