Various discoveries and a podcast
1. Never attempt to go on vacation before the biggest deal in your life and in the history of your company is scheduled to close. You will have insomnia; you will be trying to buy phone cards to make phone calls across nine time zones in a town with no shop, no cellphone coverage, and one public pay phone; you will be doing royalty statements on your laptop; and various things will go down that will constitute serious obstacles to your deal that you will overcome, somehow...
2. Using a variant on the word "fuck" in an interview with Salon will triple your company's website traffic.
3. "Nouns are the body, verbs are the life. Adjectives are the bloody dress they were found in after the accident."
4. Podcasts are truly wonderful things—when this deal goes through, there'll be more. For now: Matt Sharpe on NPR's Booktour, with a podcast from his reading at Politics & Prose.