Jack The Scribbler

“And I stick burning leaves in my foodhole. So, as a matter of fact, do Kurt Vonnegut, Molly Ivins, Susan Brownmiller, Vaclac Havel, and Lech Walesa. So did Pablo Picasso, Mary McCarthy, FDR, and George Sand. Charles Kuralt couldn’t get… Read more ›

“At the end of the day, if you can do anything else — telemarketing, pharmaceutical sales, or ditch-digging, major league umpire — I would suggest you do that because being a writer blows: it’s like having homework for the rest… Read more ›

Interviewer Have you read The Da Vinci Code? Umberto Eco Yes, I am guilty of that too. Interviewer That novel seems like a bizarre little offshoot of Foucault’s Pendulum. Eco The author, Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum.… Read more ›