DAVID FINKLE AUTHOR/COLUMNIST

David Finkle is a New York-based writer who concentrates on politics and the arts. He writes regularly on theater, books and music for New York Stage Review and The Clyde Fitch Report, where he is chief drama critic. He's contributed to scores of publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New York Post, The Nation, The New Yorker, New York, Vogue, Mirabella, Harper's Bazaar, Psychology Today, Saturday Review and American Theatre. He is the author of People Tell Me Things, a story collection, The Man With the Overcoat, a novel, Humpty Trumpty Hit a Brick Wall: Donald J. Trump's First Year in Verse and Great Dates With Some Late Greats, a story collection.

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Late Dates With Some Late Greats

Speed dating with Jane Austen and watching Marilyn Monroe fulfill her life’s dream of playing Hamlet on a New York stage, while Babe Ruth plays sandlot baseball with a group of New Jersey teenagers are only a sample of the wonderful stories to be found in David Finkle’s new collection. Homer, Machiavelli, Harry Truman, Mona Lisa, and many more are brought to life in the 21st Century to bring their perspectives, opinions, and personalities to an unassuming narrator who can not believe his good fortune. After all, wouldn’t we all like to meet Elvis, or Jesus for that matter? Told with Finkle’s signature wit and sharp eye for the ironic and absurd in life, Great Dates With Some Late Greats will inspire readers’ imagination and leave them laughing for more.David Finkle is a writer and journalist focusing on the arts and politics.