Latest Podcast: Hitler, Mussolini, Zac Hanson, the Kardashians

Books, Dictators, Kardashians, one direction, Podcast, pop culture, Zac Hanson

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Jay Nordlinger, senior editor of National Review, virtually stops by to discuss his new book, Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators (Encounter Books)—and I promise, you will not be wondering why I’m not discussing One Direction.

Because, you know, in between talking Hitler, Pol Pot and Mussolini, I’ll be name-checking One Direction, as well as the Kardashians, Zac Hanson and Batman’s Bob Kane.

Trust me, it all works.

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I Live-Tweeted “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”

Books, holiday, Holiday Specials, Shameless Self-Promotion, TV, TV poetry

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Someone’s got to think the big thoughts. Plus, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the best Charlie Brown holiday special of them all.

I just did a plug right there.

For my book, Sylvia Plath Totally Ruins Father Knows Best: 50 Poems About TV, TV-Watching and the Existential Sadness of Conan O’Brien.

Pretty smooth, if I do say so myself.

“Sylvia Plath” Gets Pub

Books, Shameless Self-Promotion, TV, TV poetry

“Sylvia Plath Totally Ruins ‘Father Knows Best,'” a poem from my fine Inverted Pyramid e-book of the same name, is excerpted in the February/March 2014 issue of Shelf Unbound, the book-review magazine.

The poem is found on page 29. The e-book, a collection of poems about TV, growing up, TV, growing older and more TV, is on sale at Amazon.