For any author, pre-publication attention is an infinitely precious commodity. So it must have been with great delight that Craig Brown, the British satirist, learned last month that his book "Q:A Voyage Around the Queen" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) had come to the attention of that well-known influencer Donald Trump. The former President makes a brief appearance, in a chapter dedicated to the late Queen Elizabeth's encounters with controversial foreign leaders. (Others mentioned include Bashar al-Assad, Idi Amin, and Vladimir Putin.) The monarch told a guest that she'd found Trump "very rude," Brown writes. "She particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting."When asked about the characterization, which was excerpted in the Daily Mail, Trump obligingly delivered the money quote: "I think it's a shame that a sleazebag can write an article that's totally false.... I know nothing about him. I have no idea who he is." Brown's publisher must already be redesigning the dust jacket to incorporate the accolade.
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ART OF STONE
\"The Brutalist.\"
MOMMA MIA
Audra McDonald triumphs in \"Gypsy\" on Broadway.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
\"Black Doves,\" on Netflix.
NATURE STUDIES
Kyle Abraham's “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.”
WHAT GOOD IS MORALITY?
Ask not just where it came from but what it does for us
THE SPOTIFY SYNDROME
What is the world's largest music-streaming platform really costing us?
THE LEPER - LEE CHANGDONG
. . . to survive, to hang on, waiting for the new world to dawn, what can you do but become a leper nobody in the world would deign to touch? - From \"Windy Evening,\" by Kim Seong-dong.
YOU WON'T GET FREE OF IT
Alice Munro's partner sexually abused her daughter. The harm ran through the work and the family.
TALK SENSE
How much sway does our language have over our thinking?
TO THE DETECTIVE INVESTIGATING MY MURDER
Dear Detective, I'm not dead, but a lot of people can't stand me. What I mean is that breathing is not an activity they want me to keep doing. What I mean is, they want to knock me off. My days are numbered.
