It’s the busy season, but what a delight that my third book of Summer 2024 is now available. SIMPLE GRIFTS by Max Cossack is a fun book to say the least. I have read every one of Max’s works, and was honored to be allowed to record this book. (I’ll be doing more in the coming months.) If you haven’t read/listened to any of his books, start today: he’s brilliant. Here’s the summary: Professor Soren Pafko has made a life and career out of lying, conniving, manipulating, and abusing everyone in his path. So far, it’s working great: he’s Chair of his College’s Department of Comparative Literature; he’s leader of the local chapter of the Democratic Communists of America; and when he wants to cheat on his wife, he’s got his pick of women who think he’s the second coming of Che Guevara. In short, his life is peachy. But when he flunks local yokel Gus Dropo’s teenage son for a politically incorrect classroom comment, everything in Professor Pafko’s world begins to go hilariously wrong.
Max has been banned by Twitter for being astute, honest, and sparing no fools. Check out his other books and buy them all. Then listen to them as icing on the cake.
