My first-ever press mention appeared last week in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article, and the column also appeared on Posthole.com, which is cool because i'm a fan of Posthole. My friends in Santa Cruz threw a 'pre-launch' party featuring theme food from the book, including salsa made from a prickly pear.
Anyhow, this is the article as it appeared in the paper:
"Success dogs Sentinel reporter
Former Sentinel reporter Dan White, now at Columbia University, sent word he's sold a book to Harper Collins Publisher.
With the working title of "The Cactus Eaters," White's book tells about his trip along the Pacific Crest Trail with a former girlfriend, both of them wilderness neophytes.
But this is no tragic piece of literature.
Instead, says White's good friend and Sentinel feature writer Peggy Townsend, think Bill Bryson on the Appalachian Trail in "A Walk in the Woods"
Like Bryson, White's not exactly a Daniel Boone type.
Consider, for example, the title of White's book — taken from an experience he had when his trail wound through the desert.
His backpack much too heavy, White has already dumped his water when, in the desert, his thirst gets the better of him.
Thankfully, he's read somewhere that cactii hold liquid refreshment.
But for White, the cactus holds only a mouthful of needles.
So, is Dan White's autograph worth big bucks now?
"My autograph at this point is worth about five Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum wrappers," he e-mailed me recently.
Don't know the publication date yet, but when I do, you'll be the first to know.''
P.S. -- my review of Slanted Door take-out was probably a little harsh; I've been hearing from a couple of Slanted Door fans who think I ordered badly and should have just waited to get seated in the main building.
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