Many thanks to all the readers who have emailed in to say how dazzling I was

on C-SPAN yesterday. I am sorry not to have posted about this appearance in

advance. The producers told me last week that the taped segment would be

coming up yesterday on Book Notes, but what with one thing and another I

forgot to say. Apparently it came out very well on TV. (This was the IWF

panel discussion on Tom Wolfe’s new book.)