Washington in the 1970s. Jon Stone is a Spinoza-inspired reporter with a rationalist’s need to see the world as it is, not as Washington’s elite would print it. Stone follows a trail of campaign donations, bribes, regulatory favors, and other fixes leading to Seymour Solomon — an ex-bricklayer with two fingertips missing. Now Solomon is […]
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‘Solomon Scandals’ book-signing Jan. 18
Decades before the ABC-TV series Scandal or House of Cards on Netflix, The Solomon Scandals existed in manuscript form—a quirky look at a darker side of D.C. that you can’t see on the screen right now or read about in the standard bestsellers. Scandals isn’t about a comely fixer in love with Mr. President, or […]
Read More‘Tabloid City’ vs. ‘The Solomon Scandals’: A quick, friendly comparison between Pete Hamill’s newspaper novel and mine
Pete Hamill is out with Tabloid City, a New York newspaper novel commanding its share of pixels, column inches and decibels. If the rest of Tabloid City is like the first parts, I could never have written his book, just as The Solomon Scandals would have been impossible for him—we see life, newspapers and fiction […]
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