Instead of seizing the radio stations and the Presidential Palace, our disgruntled generals are content to overrun the op-ed pages, the bookstore signing tables, and the greenrooms of the cable-TV news talk shows.
Patricia Rowland, Mr. Rowland's wife, was in the bookstore signing copies of her children's book "Marvelous Max, the Mansion Mouse" shortly after news about the governor's cottage first came out.
I'll be at the Vroman's bookstore signing, so Rach and Jill will be setting up the wedding.
Page had seen Palin up close the Saturday night before at the Gridiron Club and Martin had seen her Sunday in a Sioux City, Iowa bookstore, signing Going Rogue.
In 1996, while in a Berkeley bookstore signing my novel "The Gettin Place," which links the Tulsa Riot of 1921 and the L.A. Riots of 1992, I met a sociology professor who told me only mystery writers truly delineate and fully imagine America's often overlooked landscapes.
Another friend had told me about comedian Jim Gaffigan's Instagram account, and how he would pick up copies of his book at airport bookstores, sign them, and post the photos on Instagram so fans could find them and buy them.
Where bands face a baying throng in a cavernous stadium, writers drone through random chunks of their work at the rear of provincial bookstores, signing copies in the faint hope that the newly enhanced volumes will not appear on eBay before breakfast.
My Journey to the White House" was released on Oct. 4, the former Godfather's Pizza executive has been spending an awful lot of time in bookstores, signing copies and doing riffs on exclamation-point-happy policy prescriptions like "Natural resources are there for a reason.
It happened accidentally while running around to bookstores signing copies of The Family Dinner.
"But I wouldn't go into a bookstore and sign books.
After the pizza-making session, Mr. Batali headed to nearby Leland to do errands and stopped in at the local bookstore to sign copies of his cookbooks, and that evening he stopped in at an outdoor concert in Northport.
