Comments on: Salon.com Interview Posted http://tom-swift.com/weblog/post/255/ The website of Minnesota author Tom Swift Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:01:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tom Swift http://tom-swift.com/weblog/post/255/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Tom Swift Tue, 27 May 2008 16:33:02 +0000 http://tom-swift.com/?p=255#comment-268 It's a good question, c-dork, but I am afraid my answer reveals more about me than it does about the journalists. I am sincerely grateful for every ounce of interest the book has received. The publicity is crucial, surprising and extremely flattering. But I have a hard time reading/listening to articles/programs that are about me or about my work. Usually I skim enough to know what was covered and pull out blurbs/links that can be used for promotional efforts. I leave the review of the reviews to my more stable better half. For example, when the Chicago Sun-Times review came out I missed two of the best lines in the piece. It wasn't until you mentioned one of them and another reader pointed out the other -- more than a week later -- that I looked closely enough to see them for myself. As I write those words it occurs to me that this reply is probably fodder for some sort of psychiatric evaluation. It’s a good question, c-dork, but I am afraid my answer reveals more about me than it does about the journalists. I am sincerely grateful for every ounce of interest the book has received. The publicity is crucial, surprising and extremely flattering. But I have a hard time reading/listening to articles/programs that are about me or about my work.

Usually I skim enough to know what was covered and pull out blurbs/links that can be used for promotional efforts. I leave the review of the reviews to my more stable better half. For example, when the Chicago Sun-Times review came out I missed two of the best lines in the piece. It wasn’t until you mentioned one of them and another reader pointed out the other — more than a week later — that I looked closely enough to see them for myself.

As I write those words it occurs to me that this reply is probably fodder for some sort of psychiatric evaluation.

]]> By: cycledork http://tom-swift.com/weblog/post/255/comment-page-1/#comment-261 cycledork Sat, 24 May 2008 01:50:00 +0000 http://tom-swift.com/?p=255#comment-261 You sounded really good in the interview and I thought I could hear your voice. That said, I understand that, for instance, quotes can get cleaned up before they make it to print. Other amendments can sometimes sneak in as well. As someone with years of experience, as a journalist, how well are your thoughts reflected on the other side of the notebook? I realize that not everyone who has interviewed you is a journalist, but I wonder what your specific experience in this interview and what your general experience as biographer has been. You sounded really good in the interview and I thought I could hear your voice. That said, I understand that, for instance, quotes can get cleaned up before they make it to print. Other amendments can sometimes sneak in as well. As someone with years of experience, as a journalist, how well are your thoughts reflected on the other side of the notebook? I realize that not everyone who has interviewed you is a journalist, but I wonder what your specific experience in this interview and what your general experience as biographer has been.

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