The Book of Answers has been in the market since about July 5. Within 10 days, I received word that it was on the best-seller lists. You know me. I tweeted it all over the planet immediately and leaked the word into Facebook. Congratulations poured in from far and wide. Everyone apparently knew I had [...]

“I was totally struck by the quality of his writing,” said Mani Shankar. He then proceeded to read slowly and with apparent relish two paragraphs from the random chapter that had taken his fancy, pausing to savor choice phrases. When he was done reading it, he read it all over again, this time pausing at expressions he liked — skeptical alleys, daytime children of evening mothers, the clinic’s lurid curtain that the ceiling fan blew up every few minutes like Marilyn Monroe’s skirt.