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So it's May 28th, and if you've been paying attention, you know what that means.

Today is the day that Dutton, the Division of Penguin, releases my new book, American Savage,

Insights, Slights, and Fights, on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics.

I do love my long subtitles.

Anyone who's read my other books knows I always have an epic subtitle.

There's lots of great stuff in this book.

I'm really proud of it.

There's essays about health care and Halloween being the straight pride parade

and BDSM and leather fetish events like Folsom in San Francisco and assisted suicide. And what is

like as a gay parent when your son comes out to you as straight and how that went down. The book is out

now. It's in bookstores now. It's available on Amazon now. There's an

audiobook version of it now. It's available on Kindle now. And I would appreciate it if you went and bought it now.

And tonight on May 28th of the New York Public Library, I will be in conversation about my new book,

being interviewed and grilled by my good buddy Andrew Sullivan at the New York Public Library.

Tonight at 7 p.m. in New York City, my favorite place for a honeymoon in a hotel room. That's it. That's all I'm going to say.

We're going to actually cut the top of the show short. I'm bad at the self-promotion stuff.

If you could see me sort of squirming around in my chair as I talk up my book, I am too

Catholic for this self-promotional kind of blathering and not limber enough to give myself a blowjob, which is what this feels like. It feels like trying to suck your own deck. I would rather just get to your calls. Go buy my new book, American Savage, Insights, Slights and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and politics. And look for me also, in addition to New York City this week. I'm going to be in Portland, Oregon, at Powell's in Washington, D.C. at the W. Hotel, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Elliott Bay Books in Seattle, Common Ground Books, in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Barnes & Noble's of Madison, Wisconsin, unabridged books in Chicago and more places. Watch for me. I'm going to get around on this book tour. And now I'm going to shut up about my new book. I'll say one thing, though. I get asked all the time what it was like, having Brian Brown, the head of the National Organization for Marriage, over to dinner. That is the last chapter in the book. We call it Bigot Christmas, because that's how it felt felt because we had to clean the house like it was Christmas. But it wasn't because Santa was coming. It was because a bigot was coming. Bigot Christmas is one of the chapters in this book. If you want to hear Terry's reaction when I told him that Brian Brown was coming to dinner and I hadn't cleared that with him first, you want to read this book.

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