David Thayer

Now that literature’s most eligible is marrying Kid Rock we can wonder why some books and some authors get buzz and some don’t. Pamela Anderson got plenty of attention for her first novel Star, but where’s the second book? The Updike trajectory is wobbling for Pam although I think I read somewhere Robbie Benson has written a novel, which brings up three questions I cannot answer: who is he? why don’t I know who he is? why has he written a novel? Am I as out of it as the umpiring crew at Yankee Stadium? Do I think that Jorge Posada is fast?

Dan Judson is one of the writers who probably does his own work. That’s not a knock on Pam and her ghost writer because I’m in favor of ambition by proxy and if I could, I’d leave the writing to someone else. I’d be poolside even if it is one of those Flintstones plastic pools which, if inflated properly, create an ambience of wealth and mystique. Add a few mixed drinks and a ghost writer and you’re in Hollywood. Write a few notes in the margin of your screenplay…boy, that’s exhausting.

THE DARKEST PLACE is one those books that deserves attention. This reporter will be interviewing Daniel Judson next week and reviewing his novel. In the meanwhile I’ve been contacted by that agent I mentioned a few weeks ago and am revising THE WORKING DEAD. She made a great point in her letter than all the minor characters have names; they don’t need names. I’m excited by her response to the work, and thus you won’t see me poolside with Pina Coladas or Fred and Wilma for that matter. I don’t know if Robbie Benson has an inflatable pool or if Pam is going to produce that sequel, but I’m down for this, my friends.

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