The CEO of the Sofa (O'Rourke, P. J.) by O'Rourke P. J

Author:O'Rourke, P. J. [O'Rourke, P. J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2002-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

7

MARCH 2001

You should write a book,” said my godson Nick, who was back at our house, having slipped chicken sushi onto the hors d’oeuvres platter at his school’s alumni lunch.

I stared balefully at Nick. [It so happens that I’m the author of a number of books, including The Agoraphobe at Large and New Truths About Eternal Verities and One-Man Honeymoon (travel); A Dog’s Breakfast (poetry); and Woolly (Thanks to Rogaine) Bully, recounting a month on the road with the Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs reunion tour. This was briefly on the best-seller list in, I believe, the Netherlands. Plus there’s the forthcoming How the Financial Collapse of 2001 Happened, Unless It Didn’t. Not to mention a series of “Rape Mysteries” written under the pseudonym Scarlet O’Bronte: Rape Be Not Proud; Rape Comes for the Archbishop; Night of the Living Raped; Rape Takes a Holiday, etc.]

“I mean a real book,” said Nick. “You know, a memoir.”

Yes, Nick, that’s the modern idea. After years of effort in the author trade, I discover an ideal topic, an inexhaustible subject of discourse, a literary inspiration—me. I’ll write a memoir. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this ages ago. It will be liberating to sit down at the typewriter and just be myself, as opposed to being you, Nick, which I don’t have the clothes for.

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