Audio engineers, if they so choose, can make just about any sputtering noise sound like a well-oiled machine. I have heard my stutter on a rebroadcast miraculously wiped clean of all its hesitations, prolongations and repetitions. It sounds much better, but it’s not...

The answer to how much of COPYBOY is “true” is a more difficult question to answer than the same question about PAPERBOY. I talked a little about this at the Knoxville launch of COPYBOY at the East Tennessee History Center, sponsored by the Friends of Knox County...

Close friends and relatives state with a quizzical eye that I genuinely seem to enjoy crisscrossing the country to talk about my books. My answer is that I have never enjoyed anything as much. The book launch in Memphis for COPYBOY on July 31 is a good example. I did...