Thursday, April 26, is the big day for mystery fans as the MWA will announce the EDGAR awards that evening. The award dinner will be at the Grand Hyatt Hotel near Grand Central Station. Ironically the hotel is larger than Edgartown Massachusetts and has color coordinated lobbies and elevators to guide guests through its halls. Your reporter is color blind and will have to cover the event from the Wellington Leg Hostelry and Pension, a Mrs. Frothingmunster joint.
David Ulin, new boss of the LA Times Book Review, has Sarah Weinman writing a crime fiction column for the paper. Sarah’s first article is about ghost writing and the phenomenal success of dead authors who continue to produce work although quality control is difficult from beyond the mortal coil. Here in Wellington Leg we’re excited that St. Benedict is writing again after a fifteen hundred year hiatus: breaking him out may present a different challenge but our own Lars Kierkegaard believes St. B is a natural for the Today show.
After the Dowager Princess drops a few pounds she will be available as a spot starter for the Yankees. Her cut fastball is eating right handers alive in the Steinbeck League and the city of Detroit may drop the book making charges once Mitch Albom has his letter of apology. St. Benedict, who fanned three times against the Dowager, will co-author her Apologia in exchange for a pillow from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
“It’s an excellent pillow,” he wrote. “Quite suitable.”
Prior to AD 631 monks were forbidden from owning pillows. The big box concept was in its infancy although parking was easier. Anon.