The News & TeleGraff

At long last, my book is out from FSG: "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House."

Michiko Katutani, the NYT's famed literary critic, reviewed "The First Campaign" today and had very warm things to say about it. One of the book editors at our office walked in today and said, "You've managed to get a better review than 99 percent of authors do in their entire lifetimes."

Here's my favorite section: "Graff — the founding editor of the blog FishbowlDC.com and editor at large of Washingtonian magazine — asks how the technology that is transforming the global economy is going to affect the 'first campaign of the new age.' ... Along the way Mr. Graff raises a lot of provocative questions about how candidates are grappling with 'the new campaign paradigm' (which, he says, emphasizes a dialogue between candidates and voters, instead of a one-way conversation); how they are planning to chart America’s course in a new, globalized world that is increasingly reliant on broadband communication and technological innovation; and how his own generation (born in the 1980s and 'more technologically savvy and more civic-minded than the one before it') regards the current state of politics."

Then the best line: "The astonishingly young Mr. Graff (who was born in 1981) proves in these pages that he is a cogent writer, willing to tackle large-scale issues and problems."

Hilarious.

Amusingly, I found out that Michiko had reviewed the book thanks to Facebook this morning, where one of my friends had posted a note of congratulations.