Mark Leibovich I'm Flattered You (Maybe) (Who Knows?) Lifted The Name of My Blog For Your Book

UPDATE: Subsequent to writing this post way back when I did read the book. It's okay. I wanted it to be perceptive, dark and witty and basically DC's "You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again." And, most of all, about the people who really do run this town. It wasn't. It reveres the revered and trashes the trashable. It mocks bit players and innocents. So? I jumped some pages about people I'd never heard of and was pained for some people who are just trying to get work and make a buck. It won't change anything about how this town goes down, but hey, I'm so happy for anyone who can get a book published. Once you've been published you really just want to say good things about other authors, wish them well and praise the Lord it's still possible to get a book deal. On that basis: read this book. But, for fun, turn the tables and assume the folks painted as top dogs are false Gods and those portrayed as twerps are the good guys.

Here's my earlier post:

There's a book out by Mark Leibovich and it's called "This Town." I got an email from a friend first thing this morning, noting the title and asking:

"Isn't that the name of your blog?"

Indeed it is and has been for a while. But I'm flattered. I've been using that title for my blog about Washington since 2011 and before that for several years, for a very insidery and juicey column I wrote under a pen name - "Michael Strange" - in the Washington Social Diary of Washington Life. Kevin Chaffee called me this morning, too, to tell me about the book. 

In truth, I lifted the title from a playwright, who wrote a play about Washington called 'This Town." It was last staged, that I know of, in the late 90s in Sag Harbor. So, I guess, what goes round goes round....

PS-This is all really, really silly.