Window Shopping Is Fun When You’re in the Display

Well, I honestly didn’t know that it would be such a broad demographic of people who would show up! Friends and people from work that I see every day, people I’ve only met once, people I haven’t seen in years, and people I didn’t know. Check out these people:

The reading itself went great. I felt powerful — strong enough to beat back the mortgage crisis with both arms behind my back.

I gotta tell you, when I arrived in New York City more than 20 years ago, I came to this very Barnes & Noble at 8th Street and 6th Avenue (across the street from Gray’s Papaya) and about in the same spot where I did my reading, there was this lonely little writer sitting all forlorn in his chair at a table for a book signing. Only nobody seemed to pay attention to him. People in the store were walking right past and completely ignoring him. I felt awful for him; not badly enough to buy a book, though.

So, to everyone who came out: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Next time, we’ll cross the street and the papaya dogs are on me!