Greetings. While I am proud of this recent profile Harvard's cross-dressing poetry guru, and this essay about David Frum, and this piece about the ethics of Clint Eastwood, I am most excited about my NEW E-BOOK ABOUT THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAN SAVAGE, which is coming next week. If you want updates, follow me on Twitter @markopp1 ...
For those Yale freshmen Googling me today to see if you want to be in my section of English 120, trust me—you don’t. I am a very hard grader, I don’t let you use laptops in class, and I forbid hats. Seek an easier professor.
The Dan Savage / Brian Brown debate at Dan's dinner table, which took place Aug. 15, last Wednesday, is supposed to be up on YouTube tomorrow. I have a forthcoming piece in the Times Home section on Thursday (I am so elegant). And Brian Brown has already gone live with this bit of WWF-bait. Paging Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon ...
For those of you who have arrived here via Brian, I must say that to truly understand my qualifications for moderating the debate, you must buy my book. William F. Buckley and Demosthenes both called it the best book about debate ever published.
My full-hour radio doc on David Blankenhorn, the (former) same-sex-marriage opponent, is here.
Friday, September 28, 2012