Among the Porcupines

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<a href=”http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/awards/quill_awards_announced_66659.asp”_blank”>Pigs fly.</a>

Bill Murray <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91-GMc3j7I”_blank”>explains</a> the big picture.

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  3. Woo! and Hoo! also.

    around here, that translates usually to “hey, mazel tov!”

    And if you DO get to make speeches, don’t forget to thank – let’s see, your personal saviour and all the little people (hey I’ve lost 3 inches in the past couple years and now qualify for “petite” clothing! That’s little enough isn’t it?

    Seriously, that is truly cool news, my friend.

  4. Excellent news and well-deserved. This seems to be your year to be an overnight sensation.

    I thought you’d like to know that we’ve recruited a new Lippmaniac in my daughter. She read To the Power of Three while in the hospital this weekend and she loved it.

    For giving her those hours of reading pleasure, Laura, bless you. I’m buying her a copy of WTDK this afternoon.

  8. I’m pleased as punch for you. I must say, while pigs are flying, and you are amongst the porcupines, I’m stuck in Groundhog Day—I downloaded the podcast of your interview with Lizzie Skurnick, but never listen to my mp3 player for more than 35 minutes at a time (both my exercising and commuting time limit)—unfortunately, my player loops back to the beginning of the track when I turn it off. As a result I’ve heard the first 35 minutes several times, and never the end…

    A few weeks ago you cast for reactions to Ondaatje’s quote, “It always takes a year for me to get over a book. I mean, I can’t leap into the next one.” First, as someone struggling through the first draft of a first book, I very much hope it won’t take me a year to recover. More to the point, there are a handful of books from which _readers_ have to recover—I was hit by three this year—Kate Atkinson’s “Case Histories,” Ian McEwan’s “On Chesil Beach,” and “What the Dead Know.” After each I had to stop reading novels for a few weeks and instead plow through neglected back issues of the New Yorker til my equilibrium was restored and my expectations of fiction could return to normal.

    So congratulations, Laura Lippman–it is a marvelous book.

  19. I think that since you have to meet Al Roker and Anne Curry (two very icky people, I believe) you are entitled to run up to IKEA in White Marsh and get a new shelf to hold all of your hardware.

    Congrats to you Laura. WTDK was the best and is now sitting with DRAMA CITY on the re-read pile here in central Ohio, a “green and pleasent land”(for extra credit, name the song and artist).

  23. Stephen Colbert is opening the gig and Amy Sedaris is among the winners, so I see nothing but upside. (Or course, my heart belongs to CBS News, which has been so good to my books and me, but I admit to having no “Today” show antipathy.)

  25. “Yes, it’s true. This man has no dick.” That kills me every time I see that movie.

    Congrats. And Amy Sedaris and Colbert openning. Is it too much to hope they’ll do something Strangers with Candy related?

  26. I am!

    By the way, am the only one who knows that the title of this entry is from Carol Matthau’s biography?

    Probably. Although one never knows what Pendarvis brings to the table, trivia-wise.

  27. BTW,
    I think we’re all expeccting that while you might be too busy to actually attend the award ceremony, you WILL be sending the video of you performing “GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE!” as an intro to your thank yous, yes? I’m sure we can find some camera operators to operate a stedicam as you stroll the streets. I wonder if that flasher is still around….

    “The world’s gonna wake up and see
    Baltimore and me”

    Everybody!

    “Oh oh oh”

  34. Ha ha! Okay, well, you baited me on this one, so here goes. I don’t feel bad about it at all! It so happens that my friend Kent once drove Carol Matthau to some Hollywood function in a limousine. Walter Matthau stood on the front porch and watched as Kent backed into some rosebushes!

  36. Congratulations! That’s so awesome and, of course, totally deserved. :)

    I just got back from Chicago. My friend Kimberlee and I always tell each other about authors we like but until recently, she hasn’t been into mysteries. When she picked me up from the airport, she was like, “Oh, I’ve been reading this awesome mystery author! You’ve got to start reading Laura Lippman!”

    And I had to tell her she was several years too late to be the one to introduce me to your books. :)

  37. And Carol Matthau makes an appearance in Capote’s ANSWERED PRAYERS. Hey, Kent said she was the basis for Holly Golightly. I’m not sure he’s an expert, as the extent of his contact with her was being her limo driver once! But have you ever heard anything like that? P.S. Sorry for turning your blog into a gossip column! A hopelessly out of date gossip column at that.

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