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Nick and Jake

TheOldMole Nov 22 2011 03:06 AM

Concrete offer from a publisher!

Ceetar Nov 22 2011 04:25 AM Re: Nick and Jake

TheOldMole wrote: Concrete offer from a publisher! ask them for cash. Concrete isn't accepted at most places as currency anymore. (congrats!)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 22 2011 04:30 AM Re: Nick and Jake

great news Mole. We know you worked your butt off for that.

themetfairy Nov 22 2011 04:32 AM Re: Nick and Jake

WTG Mole!

Edgy MD Nov 22 2011 12:45 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Knew it would happen.

seawolf17 Nov 22 2011 03:05 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Awesome!

d'Kong76 Nov 23 2011 02:20 AM Re: Nick and Jake

Cool!

Ashie62 Nov 27 2011 09:58 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Ceetar wrote: TheOldMole wrote: Concrete offer from a publisher! ask them for cash. Concrete isn't accepted at most places as currency anymore. (congrats!) LMAO

Rockin' Doc Nov 30 2011 02:05 AM Re: Nick and Jake

Congratulations, mole. Great work.

TheOldMole Jun 01 2012 06:20 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Bound galleys of Nick & Jake!

TheOldMole Aug 05 2012 03:52 AM Re: Nick and Jake

Advance copies arrived. I have the real actual hardcover book in my hand.

themetfairy Aug 05 2012 03:58 AM Re: Nick and Jake

Awesome!

TheOldMole Aug 10 2012 06:53 AM Re: Nick and Jake

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nick-ja ... 1611457230

Ceetar Aug 10 2012 01:33 PM Re: Nick and Jake

TheOldMole wrote: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nick-jake-jonathan-richards/1110931280?ean=9781611457230 very cool.

TheOldMole Aug 10 2012 03:07 PM Re: Nick and Jake

From Kirkus reviews: NICK & JAKE [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Richards, Tad Author: Richards, Jonathan Review Issue Date: September 1, 2012 Online Publish Date: August 15, 2012 Publisher:Arcade Pages: 256 Price ( Hardcover ): $24.95 Publication Date: September 1, 2012 ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-1-61145-723-0 Category: Fiction Goofy, funny and full of literary in-jokes. The Nick and Jake of the title are Nick Carraway (from The Great Gatsby) and Jake Barnes (from The Sun Also Rises), who, in 1953, strike up a correspondence and then a friendship. At the beginning of this epistolary novel, Nick has recently left his successful advertising agency in Chicago and idealistically taken a position at the State Department, while Jake is a crusty writer for the Herald Tribune in Paris. After being manhandled at the McCarthy hearings, a disillusioned Nick takes off for Europe, his marriage on the rocks and his relationship with his son, Alden, in shambles. Earlier in his life, Nick had written a novel, Trimalchio in West Egg, about a shady character named James Gatz, to some critical acclaim, and Jake encourages Nick to work on a second book. (In the Richards’ alternative universe Fitzgerald and Hemingway never existed.) The cast of characters here is enormous, and the letters weave the narrative in complicated patterns. We have redbaiter Roy Cohn appear as the nephew of Robert Cohn from Hemingway’s novel. Jake has a running romantic as well as epistolary connection to the recently transgendered Christine Jorgensen, who persuades Jake to undertake the same operation in Denmark. Allen Dulles tries to control political chaos erupting in Iran with the election of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. Also making an appearance—at least through the correspondence provided by the Richards’ febrile imagination—are George H. W. Bush, Albert Camus, Irving Kristol, spiritual seeker Larry Darrell (from The Razor’s Edge) and Lady Brett Ashley, who goes to India, learns tantric sex and becomes the lover of Nick Carraway’s son, Alden. Although occasionally almost too self-consciously witty, this is a rollicking good read.

TheOldMole Nov 04 2012 12:57 PM Re: Nick and Jake

http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2012/11 ... k-and-Jake

RealityChuck Nov 06 2012 11:03 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Congratulations!

TheOldMole Dec 22 2012 03:50 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Interviewed by Bob Edwrds yesterday. Haven't yet heard when it will be aired.

cooby classic Dec 22 2012 06:21 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Old Mole, I have this on my Christmas wish list; if I don't get it I am buying it for myself :)

TheOldMole Jan 07 2013 06:17 PM Re: Nick and Jake

The Bob Edwards Show Tuesday, January 8, 2013 The National Institute for Civil Discourse, based in Tucson, Arizona, was established after the Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting. The organization’s executive director, Carolyn Lukensmeyer, talks to Bob about how to return confidence in American government by encouraging civil discourse. Then, Nick & Jake is the title of new book by brothers Jonathan and Tad Richards. In what’s billed as “an epistolary novel,” the two famous literary characters, Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, strike up a correspondence and then friendship and romp through 1950s America with a bizarre cast of fictional and historical figures including Sartre and Joe McCarthy. Jonathan Richards reviews movies for the Santa Fe New Mexican and his political cartoons are seen regularly in the Huffington Post. He illustrated Alan Arkin’s children’s book Cosmo. Tad Richards is the author of seventeen novels and various works of nonfiction, poetry, plays, screenplays and songs, most recently “Banks of the Hudson” on an album by singer/Congressman John Hall. Schedule: Sirius XM Public Radio XM 121/Sirius 205 M-F 8 AM (ET) Encore presentations: Tue-Sat 4 AM M-F 9 AM M-F 10 AM M-F 3 PM M-F 8 PM M-F 9 PM (replay of previous day’s show)

TheOldMole Jan 07 2013 11:24 PM Re: Nick and Jake

New information -- the Nick and Jake interview on the Bob Edwards Show has been rescheduled -- it won't be tomorrow. They decided -- probably correctly -- that our socio-politico-literary raffish humor wouldn't be a great segue from a segment on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. We're rescheduled for next week, date to be determined.

TheOldMole Jan 08 2013 04:23 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Hope I'm not boring people to death with these ever-changing updates, but here's the latest: although we've been bumped from weekday Bob Edwards Sirius-XM show, our Nick & Jake interview is still on this weekend's Bob Edwards Weekend. For information on times http://www.pri.org/bob-edwards-weekend.html. As of right now they still have last week's calendar up, so you won't see us listed, but I have it from Bob's producer -- they've already promoted the interview in spots for their weekend show, so they're definitely running it.

themetfairy Jan 08 2013 05:23 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Will there be a way for those of us without Sirius to eventually hear the interview?

TheOldMole Jan 08 2013 11:12 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Actually, you can hear it sooner. The weekday show, which is Sirius/XM, has been bumped back to next week, but the weekend show is on actual NPR, and it will be aired this weekend. To find out whether it's on your local NPR station, go to http://www2.pri.org/ProgramStationLocat ... cator.aspx -- find Bob Edwards on the first pulldown menu on the right, then your state on the second one. If it doesn't run on your local NPR station, you can certainly find it in streaming audio on any number of internet stations. For example, our local Northeast Public Radio, WAMC, is broadcasting it at 9 AM EST on Sunday, and they have streaming audio.

themetfairy Jan 09 2013 01:25 AM Re: Nick and Jake

Cool! I can't wait to hear it :)

Edgy MD Jan 14 2013 03:37 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Do you get a reading tour?

TheOldMole Jan 14 2013 07:37 PM Re: Nick and Jake

No budget for it.

TheOldMole Feb 13 2013 05:26 PM Re: Nick and Jake

I'll be on Roundtable on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, tomorrow -- Thursday, Feb. 14 -- at 11:35, talking about Nick & Jake and about Opus 40. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who is part of the cast of our Nick & Jake audio drama, will be joining me by phone. You can listen over the Internet:

themetfairy Feb 13 2013 06:09 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Awesome Mole!

TheOldMole Feb 15 2013 03:27 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Here's the interview.

cooby classic Feb 15 2013 04:35 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Sounds great, and it's next on my reading list. It's neat to have listened to this to really whet my appetite!

themetfairy Feb 15 2013 05:29 PM Re: Nick and Jake

I remember Nick and Jake in its early stages. Seeing its progress is like watching a child growing up - I'm thrilled that this fabulous project is receiving the attention that it so richly deserves. Kudos Mole!

cooby classic Feb 15 2013 05:39 PM Re: Nick and Jake

Bravo!