Rodney Rothman’s “Early Bird”
Hey, I read a book!
Actually, I tend to read about a book a week, and don’t know why it never occurred to me to keep track with them here.
Mr Rodman’s a TV writer, with histories at both Letterman and The Daily Show. At age 28 (he’s now 32, I think), he took some time between writing gigs, and moved into a retirement community in Florida, where he was younger than the average resident by about 45 years. He stayed there 6 months. This book records the lessons and events of that half-year. It’s really a very funny book, and I recommend it to any adult.
It’s probably worth noting that this book came at the recommendation of a really solid radio interviewer named Jesse Thorn, who manages a podcast empire, with The Sound of Young America being the most prominent of the bunch. He’s a very funny interviewer, gets great guests (most frequently fringe comics.) He’s responsible for turning me onto to works of George Saunders, and if for nothing else in this lifetime, I owe him big for that.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I really like this book, Dave, and I heard about it from Jesse also!