What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.