From Andy about event!

Well, now you HAVE to come.

Yes, Edward Albee, Tony Kushner, and David Auburn are astonishing Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwrights. And Paul Muldoon, with a Pulitzer of his own, is "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War."

And that's very nice but when did it ever make you any MONEY?

And, yes, Arthur Frommer is coming (if he can tear himself away from drafting AMERICA ON 5 EUROS A DAY, which I imagine, thanks to Republican stewardship, is the next book in his series).

And THAT'S very nice, because frugal travel is certainly one way to come out ahead.

But what about actually MAKING money? Or, these days, preserving capital?

Ah.

When it comes to that, NO ONE understands the Big Picture at any given time -- or explains it more engagingly -- than George J.W. Goodman, aka Jerry Goodman, aka "Adam Smith." (And, yes, he has FOUR Emmy's for his long-running work on Public Television.)

Jerry is sufficiently concerned with the direction of our country that, like you (we hope) and Nora Ephron, Liz Smith, Marie Brenner, Oliver Sacks, and so many others, he's coming to COME WRITE HISTORY -- AGAIN (as in, "let's repeat in 2008 our success of 2006.")

I think a consensus is forming: we really need to keep the DNC's nearly 200 local organizers doing the work -- now -- to give us the best possible odds of widening our lead in Congress and winning back the White House a year from now.

Even if you can't come, please go to www.snipurl.com/ComeWrite and chip in.

And if you can come, look forward to clustering around Jerry at cocktails to hear his perspective. In my experience following his work for near 40 years, his instincts have always been second to none.

THANKS!

Andy
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