My book "It Was All a Lie" will be published on Aug. 4th by @AAKnopf. Leading up to that, thought I'd share some passages to give a sense of the book. Hope you will consider pre-ordering through your local bookstore or here: bit.ly/itwasallalie "As much as I'd love to go to bed at night reassuring myself that Donald Trump was some freak product of the system - a "black swan," - as his ludicrously unqualified son-in-law says - I can't do it. I can't keep lying to myself to ward off the depressing reality that I had

With thanks to @vermontgmg for idea, giving shout-out to some of my fave travel books while we're all locked down. Tonight: "The Thousand Mile Summer" by Colin Fletcher

goodreads.com/book/show/7312… Fletcher was a Brit. At 18 joined Royal Marine Commandos & had what the Brits like to call "a hard war." Bounced around for decade & ended up in SF. When trying to decide if he should get married, he hit upon idea of walking length of Ca. to think about it.

Inspired by the great nightly book suggestions of @vermontgmg, I'm giving a shout out to one of my favorite travel books each night. Tonight it's "News From Tartary" by Peter Fleming. I loved this book so much I retraced his steps for my first book. Peter Fleming was a famous writer in his 20's. Only in a last ditch effort to compete with his younger brother, did his hell raising, alcoholic older brother try writing a spy novel in his 40's. That was Ian Fleming & he called his lead character James Bond.