10 Things I’ve Done You Might Not Have

This sounds like fun. Let’s see if I can come up with ten

1. Been bitten by a stingray (not stung, mind you, bitten)
2. Pet a shark
3. Saw copies of a book I wrote in an airport bookstore
4. Went grocery shopping with Doug Clegg and Matt Schwartz
5. Had a book translated into Russian
6. Conducted a newspaper interview during an earthquake (the reporter’s end, thankfully, not mine)
7. Traveled through East Germany via Checkpoint Charlie when the Berlin Wall was still standing
8. Attended a National Book Award banquet
9. Defended a Ph. D. thesis
10. Got book cover blurbs from Peter Straub and Stephen King