The Solomon Scandals A Washington newspaper novel by David Rothman

‘Solomon Scandals’ goes on sale on Capitol Hill, at venerable Trover Shop

Sad update, July 7, 2009: the Tro­ver Shop is about to close after more than five decades in busi­ness.

My D.C. news­pa­per novel is on sale in the belly of the beast or at least close to it—Capi­tol Hill, where so much news is bro­ken or not broken.

A ven­er­a­ble local book­store, the Tro­ver Shop, at 221 Penn­syl­va­nia Avenue, S.E., in Wash­ing­ton, is stock­ing The Solomon Scan­dals.

You can call 202–547-BOOK or fax or e-mail the store to reserve your own Scan­dals.

Even if you don’t live in D.C., you might order from Tro­ver. It’s a nice way of reward­ing Tro­ver for its ini­tia­tive and of thumb­ing your nose at Ama­zon, which, at least unwit­tingly, has done a superb job of con­ceal­ing the paper­back edi­tion from shop­pers.

Scan­dals is to news­pa­pers what the old Net­work movie was to TV news—an oft-satirical mix of the authen­tic and the fic­ti­tious. A deadly build­ing col­lapse in North­ern Vir­ginia and a Senator’s secret invest­ment in a CIA-occupied build­ing helped inspire Scan­dals.