at the kgb bar

Nina Burleigh (who appears to have shown up at People somewhat after I split and to be doing about the same job) has written a book called Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt. Last night she talked about and read from her book, which Howard had helped edit, and he and I went to listen. It was the story of an east-west debacle she compared to the current war. Her mother, she says, is from Iraq and her father American, so she knows from cultural collision. Alas, I am doing my annual cleanse and couldn't test the array of vodkas available.