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Orphan Annie's Story-line A few months ago (during dog hunting season) I saw a walker hound/fox browbeat running the road and in the woods. I noticed ...
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Orphan Annie's Dispatch A few months ago (during dog hunting season) I saw a walker hound/fox annoy running the road and in the woods. I noticed ...
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A Profile in the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday, October 30, 2008
I'm back home from nine days on the road, on a tour leg that took me from New York to Boston to Chicago to Las Vegas to Phoenix to Denver and back to Philadelphia. Whew, I'm ready to stay home and eat leftovers for a while. During my two nights in Chicago I received a visit from John Timpane, a Philadelphia Inquirer writer whom I had never before met despite my having worked there from 2002 to 2007. The poor guy got stuck flying all the way to Chicago to spend two hours interviewing me, then turned right around and flew back. Damn, and I was looking forward to having someone to hit Rush Street with. (Actually, my childhood best friend, Rock, who is a major player in The Longest Trip Home, was on hand to fill that function.) At any rate, Timpane, himself a published author and poet, struck me as a skilled professional on top of his craft -- and believe me I have seen the total spectrum of journalists since Marley & Me came out, from the sublime to the sub-prime. His piece came out in today's Inquirer, and I thought it was fair and well done. I appreciated how it explored the connection between column writing and the memoir, and how one led me to the other. Now Grogan has written The Longest Trip Home (William Morrow, 352 pp., $25.95), a memoir of growing up in an Irish Catholic family, breaking away, and, through "gravitational pull," coming back full circle. Longest Trip, in effect, is the book Marley let him write. Both stemmed from a discovery Grogan made as a columnist: Readers crave personal connection..... (And yeah, that top-floor suite was certainly sweet, but the untold story is that it was a free upgrade from a standard room, more a reflection on how much business my publisher, Harper Collins, does with the hotel chain -- and the state of the current economy -- than on anything to do with me. I definitely enjoyed it, though, especially the view of my beloved Lake Michigan, on...