Carl Hiaasen And John Grisham On A #bea14 And #bookcon Panel. Fun Stuff.

Just saying congrats to the cast and crew of "The Tempest", which just opened at the American Repertory Theater. (@americanrep) w/ Teller making magic. #DianePaulus #theater #magic

From @variety on #Spotlight, the movie opens next week.

James Patterson gets the first standing (line) ovation of the last day of #bea15. What he do? Everything and just show up! #jimmybooks

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Forever this lion.

Ted Williams knew how to get on base…just like David Ortiz. 

The Kid’s goal: Get on base

 An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: [Ted] Williams’s hitting credo was simple: get a good pitch to hit. Critics said he followed this rule to the extreme by refusing to chase a pitch that was even an inch off the strike zone, thereby hurting his team by having its best hitter often pass up an opportunity to drive a runner home. But Ted made the slippery slope counter-argument: that if he chased a pitch an inch from the plate, it would only encourage pitchers to throw two inches outside the zone, then three inches, and so on. History has vindicated Ted’s approach, as there is now broad acceptance of the value of reaching base, or on-base-percentage, a statistic that was not appreciated and barely even kept in Williams’s day. 

(PHOTO: Ted Williams happily crossing home plate at Fenway Park, 1939. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library - Leslie Jones Collection.)

As they were walking (running) onto the stage at Wellesley College, Ben Taylor pretty much just told Kori Withers she was going to sing "Lean on Me". No rehearsal. Carly Simon and the rest just followed along beautifully. #AndThenThisHappened #SallyTaylor #Consenses

The line is already to the door for opening of #BEA14. Where is the BookTV bus?

Just started this novel that was a Christmas gift. And this Version of STONER comes with a Thomas Eakins portrait.

Why, yes, I'll order enough chips for both of us. But you eat like a ... Just stay out of my beer.

Ted Williams had great aim off the field 

An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:  On Saturday mornings as a boy, Ted [Williams] and one of his best friends, Joe Villarino, would hike up into the hills outside of San Diego and go rabbit hunting, swim and look for Huck Finn-like adventure. “One day,” Villarino remembers, “we was walking around this trail and a rattlesnake come out and Ted shot it with a .45 he had. We laid it aside, and when we came back, he wrapped him around his neck and shoulders and carried it home.  Another time, at Dobie’s Pond, there was a kid in trouble. He was about eight or nine. We was about fourteen or fifteen. The kid was kinda splashing around. Ted went in and got him. He didn’t make a big deal of it. He didn’t like to be in the limelight too much.”

(PHOTO: Ted Williams hauling in his kill in Minnesota, 1939. Ted Williams Family Enterprises.)