Meeting Your Readers
Not to turn this space into the NY Times’ “Metropolitan Diary” or anything, but I had a curious and gratifying moment yesterday. I’m currently in Sanibel Island, Florida, where my biggest traffic concern is generally trying to figure out if the thing I can see in the dead tree to my distant left as I drive is a peregrine falcon or a red-shouldered hawk. In any case, at the local bookstore I saw a flyer announcing a pickup-soccer game the following morning (the guy announced he needed a break from “family time”). Being a soccer nut and definitely suffering withdrawal symptoms, I resolved to attend. It turned out I was the only one who did, apart from the three early twenty-something guys hosting it. After an intense first-half of two-on-two, we were chatting in the shade. We were talking about what we did, and I mentioned Traffic, then preparing myself to make the explanatory pitch… Before I could, however, one of the three, Scott, perked up and said “you wrote Traffic?” Not only had he bought and read the book on a plane, but apparently a friend had bought it for him as well (was there ever more rapturous music to a writer’s ears?) We talked for a while about Boston drivers and such, then played a bit longer in the noonday heat, then went our separate ways. I think it was a draw, by the way.
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