Thursday, July 07, 2005

Remember that book in the drawer?

I was listening to an interview on NPR with Bob Woodward about his new book, The Secret Man, the book that tells the untold story of Deep Throat (the Watergate version, not the XXX version). I like listening to Bob Woodward. He's very old-school reporter, a profession canonized in black & white Hollywood movies, long before we ever knew the name Jayson Blair or Mitch Albom or Stephen Glass.... One thing he said in his interview was that he wrote The Secret Man three years ago and stuck it in a drawer, because he wasn't sure if he'd ever be able to publish it. I thought about that. Here's a man who gets paid very highly for his words. A man whose time is very expensive. And he wrote a book that he knew might not ever see the light of day. Talk about the book of your heart.

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