On the road with Crazy Good

We're on the road this week, for the first event publicizing Charlie's book Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America, out June 3 from Simon & Schuster.
February 18-20, St. Petersburg, Florida: Charlie is speaking at the annual meeting of the Harness Tracks of America and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, where he is being awarded the coincidentally named Dan Patch Award for Media Excellence (planned future book topics: The Academy and Pulitzer).
Dan Patch, a harness horse at the turn of the 20th century, was the biggest pop culture icon, human or animal, of his day—more Americans knew who he was than who the President was; crowds exceeding 100,000 turned out to see him race against the clock; he earned over $1 million a year when the highest-paid baseball player, the Detroit Tigers' Ty Cobb, was making $12,000. For a dear tribute to Dan, and to Charlie's book, check this out.

Iowa Bound!

Sarah will be in illustrious company teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2008. Her two workshops, Memoir: The Vertical Pronoun and the Who Cares? Question and Narrative Journalism: The Art of the Profile happen July 13-20. Also on the roster: BK Loren, John Dalton, Hope Edelman, and many others. Come join us!

From the It's Funny Because It's True Dept.

Re. The Writer-Editor relationship. Watch it and weep—with laughter or recognition, or both. And should you fall in love with a shark, a squid, a pebble, or a policeman, or none or all of the above, please do report back.