http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/lunch_date_bob_spitz (A few times a week, I take a new book with me to lunch and give it a half an hour or so to grab my attention. Lunch Date is my judgment on that speed-dating experience.) Who's your date today? Today is a special Lunch Date. W.W. Norton took a few local booksellers, a couple of reporters, and a certain Stranger Book Editor out to the Dahlia Lounge for a lunch with Bob Spitz, the author of The Saucier's Apprentice. Spitz wrote The Beatles, the biography of, um, The Beatles, and he's reading from Apprentice at Third Place Books... Copyright 2008 Thu, 22 May 2008 17:46:57 -0800 Fri, 23 May 2008 09:12:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss You should also know that Spitz is a pathological liar. Only about 25% of what he says is true. No publisher ever wants to do another book with him because he so pisses off his editors--and anyone who gets to know him. He is like the character in the movie "Catch Me If You Can", seemingly charming, but reallya sociopath.

]]> Jaqui http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/lunch_date_bob_spitz#c1030572 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/lunch_date_bob_spitz#c1030572 Books Fri, 23 May 2008 05:56:04 -0800 I hated Buford's "Heat" so much that I refuse to ever read another book about a midlife crisis cured by culinary education in Europe.

]]> giantladysquirrels http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/lunch_date_bob_spitz#c1030593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/lunch_date_bob_spitz#c1030593 Books Fri, 23 May 2008 09:04:25 -0800 All else aside, "easy-fancy" is my new fav phrase.

]]> orangekrush http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/lunch_date_bob_spitz#c1030597 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/lunch_date_bob_spitz#c1030597 Books Fri, 23 May 2008 09:12:59 -0800