AS YOU WILL REMEMBER from the title page of MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, I am not the ONLY author published by Dutton and Riverhead. I share that distinction with many luminaries, including Darin Strauss, Ken Follett, David Rees, and, of course, THE RZA, author of THE TAO OF WU.

IN FACT, RZA and I not only share an editor, but also a fondness for KICKING THINGS OFF OF JOHN SELLERS‘S HEAD. As you will see from the video below.

I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD for someone to create a song featuring RZA’s version of the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN theme. IN FACT, I will give a free audiobook and/or paperback to the first person who A) DOES IT and B) DOES THE BEST JOB, ACCORDING TO ME.

MEANWHILE, my question for Sean McDonald of Riverhead books is:

WHY HAVEN’T YOU SIGNED UP RZA’S SIFU FOR A BOOK DEAL?

I HAVE JUST saved publishing.

That is all.

POST SCRIPT: please also note that Ken Folett’s splash page features a photograph of Ian McShane that you MUST SEE.

UPDATED: NOW WITH EVEN MORE RZA: John Sellers gets Rza to confess to GEEKDOM.

MANY OF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS. They are reasonable, and I will get to them all SOME DAY.

BUT FOR NOW, I will only answer THREE of them.

ANSWER ONE: the paperback edition of MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE will be available for you to purchase on NOVEMBER 3 of this year (2009).

As with my first book of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE, this low-cost, much more flimsy SOFTCOVER edition will feature many UPDATES AND ERRATA.

IT WILL NOT INCLUDE any more HOBO NAMES or MOLE-MAN NAMES.

IT WILL INCLUDE 44 more PRESIDENT NAMES.

ANSWER TWO: the paperless (or “AUDIOBOOK”) edition of MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE will be available for you to purchase EVEN EARLIER, on OCTOBER 29.

THE REASON FOR THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THESE DATES IS MYSTERIOUS!

MANY GUESTS joined me in the “recordo-pod” for this trip around the turntable, including the legendary super-group: CAVETT, COULTON, GALIFIANAKIS, GLASS, GOLDWASSER, GERVAIS, MADDOW, RUDD, F. TOMPKINS, & VOWELL (or as they were known when they used to play stadiums in the seventies, CCGGGGMRFT&V)

PLUS: all 700 MOLE-MAN NAMES as they were recorded LIVE BEFORE A STUDIO AUDIENCE in a lair beneath UNION HALL, in Brooklyn, NY.

ANSWER THREE: I will be visiting various cities and townships in America to present material from these two editions.

AND WHAT’S MORE, they are listed over there in the box marked “TODAY… IN THE FUTURE.”

That is all.

MY FRIEND PHIL is in Omaha.

THERE HE SAW THIS YOUNG MAN reading an important book.

OBSERVATIONS ABOUND, such as

A) THIS WONDERFUL BOOK IS STILL IN PRINT
B) PEOPLE IN OMAHA GIVE PRINT BOOKS THE THUMBS UP
C) BRUCE’S PAPERBACK IS SO MUCH INCREDIBLY LONGER THAN MINE (which comes out Nov 3, by the way).

WHICH IS TO SAY, Bruce really wrote the boomstick out of that book, and I am glad for him.

That is all.
POST SCRIPT: “JAMES” from the comments also observes the obvious: “D) OMAHA COFFEE HOUSES DO NOT ALLOW READERS TO SIT INSIDE.”