What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?
A Ukrainian-themed t-shirt; copies of Exile on K Street, a few vintage 8664 and Vote for Jimmy bumper stickers.
Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?
I’ll certainly invite everybody who’s in the book, and that’s a lot of people! Anyone with an interest in politics, urban planning, or history can benefit from reading Exile on K Street.
Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?
In 2006 while sitting in a bar with a couple of friends, I made a rather spontaneous decision to run for the US Congress. It was a tilting- at-windmills maneuver, and I was soundly defeated in my one-and-only campaign. But getting involved in politics set my life on a new course, and I’m glad that I was able to document that path in Exile on K Street.
Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to the most? If you’ve participated before – what was your favorite experience at the Festival?
Yes – This will be my first time. I’m very much looking forward to meeting other writers, and readers in general, and trading notes with them about what they’re writing, and what they’re reading. There is no frigate like a book…
