I taped an interview about "Fat Boy Thin Man" a few weeks ago with Smoki Bacon, a Boston cultural institution, for her show "The Literati Scene" at her Beacon Hill home. It will be telecast tonight at 7:30, and again at 9:30 tomorrow morning, on Channel 23 in Boston. It also will appear, though at different times, on better than a dozen other local Boston outlets. See here for a roster of outlets, if not a list of showtimes.

I'm happy any time anyone shows an interest in my book, of course, but to join the club of her guests is a thrill. Ray Kurzweil, David Brudnoy, Elliot Norton, Tina Packer, Hedrick Smith, Allen Ginsburg, Ken Burns, Gordon Parks, Donald Hall, Joe Kennedy, Rosalind Carter, Augusten Burroughs, Jimmy Breslin, Dominick Dunne, Pierre Salinger, Gay Talese. The list goes on.