Jonathan Last

Come Hang Out on December 7
November 24th, 2015

AEI is being kind enough to host one last Virtues panel for The Christmas Virtues. It’s at the AEI mothership on Monday, December 7, at 6:00 pm. There will be free booze and then an amusing discussion about Christmas featuring Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes, P. J. O’Rourke, James Lileks, Rob Long, and Mollie Hemingway. It’ll be great.

You can RSVP here.

Amanda November 25, 2015 at 10:23 pm

Dear Mr Last,
I’m very interested in the Christmas book. Will there be a Kindle edition? I’m so desperate to buy books only on Kindle these days. Have you seen the Star Trek episode, ‘The Trouble With Tribbles’? Well, we don’t have tribbles in this household, we have books. Even if I get rid of the ones we really aren’t going to read again, that still leaves the bulk of our library intact: many of them haven’t been read yet. You see the posish. I’d even pay MORE just to have your book, invisible, ever-ready during my dog-walk outings, on the device.
Sincerely,
Amanda

Amanda November 28, 2015 at 1:17 pm

Never mind! I’ve bought the Kindle edition already! Cheers.
A.

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