“My best Christmas gift this year was from my mother-in-law, a signed first edition of Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk. Wouk reworks the too-short life of Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) to paint a captivating portrait of ambition and stardom in the postwar literary world. A fascinating read on many levels, it reminded me that almost nothing changed in the publishing world for more than half a century — and then everything changed. Or has it? In a great scene, Hawke is persuaded to dump his publisher and self-publish. … I wonder what advice Mr. Hawke would have for us in 2013?”
James Grippando, author of Blood Money
Grippando appears at 8 p.m. Friday at Books & Books in Coral Gables
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