Why I loathe book tours

Friends,

I’m in New York today, peddling my new book. It’s officially out today.

I loathe book tours.

The first book tour I ever went on, in the early 1980s, brought me to a bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin, where they sat me in the window under a spotlight next to a sign “Come In and Have Your Book Signed By Robert Reich.”

No one came in. For two hours, p…