READER BOOK PLUG: Tom Elia writes to ask me to plug his When Lobsters Take Flight.

The title is taken from a quote by Chicago newspaperman and humorist Finley Peter Dunne, who, channeling through his famous character, Chicago South Side saloon keeper Martin J. Dooley, wrote this:

“A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tu-rrned into angels be an iliction is called a rayformer an’ remains at large.”

The quote is used to introduce the chapter on Barack Obama.

So buy it!