Mortification: Writers’ Stories Of Their Public Shame

Seventy letters written by some of today's most successful authors, including Margaret Atwood, Carl Hiaasen, Billy Collins, and Jonathan Lethem, relate their experiences of public humiliation, from a reading that was attended only by the writer's mother to a talk-show appearance that was upstaged by dysfunctional fellow guests. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.