The Solomon Scandals A Washington newspaper novel by David Rothman

‘David Rothman’ namesakes: Egosurfers, here’s what the rest of us are up to

I’ve remarked before on weird coin­ci­dences related to my name.

Two let­ters, for exam­ple, dis­tin­guish me from David Roffman, at least if you don’t include mid­dle names. He’s the vet­eran jour­nal­ist asso­ci­ated with the George­towner news­pa­per, shown with a Kitty Kel­ley fea­ture (tem­po­rary link).

Much of The Solomon Scan­dals hap­pens in George­town, which, by the way, is home to a net.friend of mine named Beth Solomon, founder of The George­town Dish web­site and most def­i­nitely not the real estate mag­nate in Scan­dals. You can read the Dish’s own Kel­ley fea­ture here.

But back Topic R or DR. For the ben­e­fit of any stray David Roth­mans who ego­surfed their way to this post, here are a few more stray facts about peo­ple shar­ing The Name or close to it:

–David the Almost Roth­man and I are now friends on Face­book, which will make it all the eas­ier to catch up with him when once again peo­ple con­fuse us and I need to redi­rect them.

–I  enjoyed The Girl on the Train, an excel­lent French film about an attention-grabber who falsely claims to have been the vic­tim of anti-Semitism. Authen­tic anti-Semitism hap­pens against a fic­tion­al­ized char­ac­ter in the movie (French title shown). His name? “David Roth­man.” Hey, for the pur­pose of this list, we’ll con­sider him an hon­orary real person.

–Yes, other book-writers exist named David Roth­man, even though the sur­name isn’t exactly “Smith.” David B., is the author of Mr. Death: The Life of a CIA Assas­si­na­tion Expert, by His Son. David J. writes poetry. Per­haps the most promi­nent David Roth­man, at least in the United States, is the pro­fes­sor at Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity, an expert on med­ical ethics and a pro­lific author. He’s a sec­ond David J. Finally there’s the med­ical librar­ian David L. Roth­man, a library blog­ger and author, whose life became per­haps a lit­tle less dif­fi­cult when I sold off the Tel­eRead site devoted to e-books and libraries. That’s him to the right, doing a funny rant against a LibraryJour­nal blog.

In Florida a David Roth­man works for Dis­ney World, or at least was when our paths crossed vir­tu­ally due to con­fu­sion on Hot­mail. Flor­dia is also home to David B. Roth­man the lawyer.

I don’t know of any crooks, child-molesters, etc., with The Name but will do an adden­dum if I find any. Minus the “David” in the title, there is a Roth­man Scan­dal novel.

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