John Bloom (Joe Bob Briggs) at New York Mid-Manhattan Library: Dec. 21, 2016

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REMEMBER, ALL JOHN BLOOM EVENTS ARE GLUTEN-FREE
If you find yourself in Midtown this Wednesday—predicted temperature 33!—it's warm and cozy inside the Mid-Manhattan Library (directly across the street from the Fifth Avenue lions), where I'll be giving a fireside chat. Actually there's no fireside and no fire, but I'll be chatting about my experiences writing the book that is currently out there embarrassing several dozen people. This is my only appearance in New York after a tour that's taken me from MIT to the Google campus to Northrop Grumman to UC Berkeley to lots of other swell places up and down the east and west coasts but, FINALLY, at the end of 2016, to a place where my friends and frenemies (you know who you are) can actually show up!


Eccentric Orbits was recently named to the Wall Street Journal's "Ten Best Books of 2016" list as well as a similar list put out by The Economist and a third one written by Bethany McLean, author of that awesome Enron book, The Smartest Guys in the Room. The book has attracted interest from a certain celebrity filmmaker who has muzzled me.

In case you're one of the lucky few who has NOT had to listen to me talk about this topic the last six years, I'm putting a few of the reviews below. I'm planning to speak for about 30 to 45 minutes—depending on how often you guys interrupt, and how badly you wanna hear the story of how I was the most annoying guy ever to use the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library—and then the library typically does a Q&A for these events, and then I'll do a signing with books provided by Books On Call, Andrea Shane's bookstore on wheels.

And whoever's left after that, we'll definitely go for cocktails.

BE SURE TO COME WEDNESDAY NOT THURSDAY—THURSDAY IS THE KLEZMER GUY

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/12/21/eccentric-orbits-iridium-story-john-bloom-veteran-investigative