The Solomon Scandals A Washington newspaper novel by David Rothman

A WASHINGTON novel

The Solomon Scan­dals blog comes out of Alexan­dria, Vir­ginia, just across the Potomac from D.C., and the novel itself is very much a Wash­ing­ton crea­ture, as well as a North­ern Vir­ginia one.

But oh how the local details can travel, so to speak. Dur­ing the Water­gate party in Scan­dals, a PR man offers boozy insights about local sub­way eti­quette on the Metro—“left-steppers” vs. “right-steppers” and “park­ers,” and the soci­ol­ogy of it all. But you could live in New York or Moscow and under­stand the nuances even if the eti­quette isn’t the same.

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