The Great

I want to discover all the great music out there. I want to read all the great books. And I want to write better music and better books. But maybe more than that, I want to be asked my opinion about these things. I want Jon Stewart to try to understand my world view in five minutes. Sure, a longer interview would be nice, maybe Fresh Air on NPR, or In the Actor Studio. Why not? He had Martin Lawrence so I guess anything goes.

At first, I will get to talk about my book and about the reasons for writing, and about the struggle to publish, and about my doubts, and of course about my future projects. The interview can go anywhere, though. At any point I might make a political statement and the interview will go in an unexpected direction. Really? You think the President should be impeached? You think illegal immigrants are modern-day slaves? You think the two-party system alienates voters? My, oh, my. How could we have lived without these second-hand opinions?

We all want to matter in our all-too-human way. Even the Dalai Lama wants to be recognized. Why else would he sign all his books with the prefix “His Holiness”?