Well, as you may have heard, there’s a pandemic going on. One sad side effect of that is that it didn’t seem like a good idea to do in-person bookstore readings in recent months: I love meeting readers and signing books, but I’m not such a big fan of hosting superspreader events.

The unexpected silver lining: I did three online Bad Motherfucker events, each of them a conversation with a smart and accomplished friend, all of them very different, and you can watch all of them still!

Last night Douglas Wolk and I were hosted by Book Passage, the cool bookstore with two branches in the Bay Area of California. Douglas is the author of All of the Marvels, an incredibly smart journey through the history of Marvel comics, for which he read every Marvel superhero comic ever (27,000+ of them). So we talked about Nick Fury, naturally—and the ups and downs of doing obsessive research.

Back in November, I talked with Phil LaMarr, the hugely gifted voice actor (Futurama, Samurai Jack, Justice League) and live-action actor (Mad TV, Pulp Fiction) who did a completely brilliant job reading the audiobook of Bad Motherfucker. We talked about his various encounters with Samuel L. Jackson and how each of us approached our work on Bad Motherfucker. It’s archived on the Instagram Live feed of Hachette Books.

Also in November, I had a lively and entertaining conversation with one of my favorite people on the planet: Rob Sheffield, author of brilliant books including Love Is a Mix Tape and Dreaming the Beatles. We geeked out on Samuel L. Jackson movies and misheard lyrics (and where they overlap, in a memorable scene in The Long Kiss Goodnight) and we were hosted by Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC.

posted 20 January 2022 in Buy My Stuff, Outside and tagged Bad Motherfucker, Douglas Wolk, Rob Sheffield. no comments yet