![]() With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. James Patterson by James Patterson is the most anticipated memoir of 2022.īilly Crystal is 65, and he's not happy about it. As he says, “I’m still working on that one.” How did a boy from small-town New York become the world’s most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. Three American presidents have invited him to golf with them.Dolly Parton once sang “Happy Birthday” to James over the phone. She calls him J.J., for Jimmy James.He’s only been in love twice. Both times are amazing. ![]() ![]() He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party.While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line “I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid”.He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell.Growing up, he didn’t love to read. That changed.On the morning he was born, he nearly died.How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? “I felt I was interviewing James Patterson under the highest permissible does of sodium pentothal, the truth serum, for hours-and he spilled the whole story of his truly astonishing life.”-Bob Woodward ![]()
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