Taking the heartland by storm.

Kidding. I just like using the world "heartland," and I cannot claim to be taking it by storm. But yet another midwestern weekly entertainment newspaper has given a brief nod to my book FAKE, and, as always, I'm very appreciative, and hopeful that it signals some sort of trend. This time it was the Omaha City Weekly, Nebraska's hippest tabloid. Check out the article here. (It's way down at the bottom of the page, which negates any notion of taking-by-storm.)

Sigh. It is way too hot this week. 111 degrees the other day (a new record), and it's not letting up. That was not a typo: One-hundred-eleven degrees. You should all go beat the heat by seeing Al Gore's new movie.