Andrew Klavan, hereinafter to be known as The Hated Competition (THC), because he has treacherously and spitefully arranged for his new book to come out at about the same time as my new book (called, in case you’ve forgotten, West Oversea), nevertheless has some things to say worth reading in the second half of his interview with John Nolte over at Big Hollywood. In response to a question about how much easier leftists have it in the entertainment world, he replies:

Yes, it is easier for them that way. But it’s harder for them too because they’re talking absolute nonsense and we’re telling the simple truth: that liberty is a great good and worth defending, that right is right and wrong is wrong and moral relativity is merely a form of cowardice, that the individual is more important than the state, that our rights come from our Creator. See, they can attack us, try to silence us, maybe crush us-but they can’t beat us because we’re right and they’re wrong. The truth is not so coincidentally a lot like Jesus, dude. You mock it, you torture it, you kill it-and yet there it stands. I try not to worry about what they “allow,” or what they say is permissable. I try to hitch my wagon to the truth and hold on.

But enough of THC. You want to know the latest news about my book (called, in case you’ve forgotten, West Oversea).

I got a .pdf of what is apparently the final cover tonight. It looks to me as if, after all the sturm und drang, the artist pretty much got everything he wanted. Which is a lesson to us all, I guess.

The book is called, in case you’ve forgotten, West Oversea. I’ll post the art as soon as I’m cleared to do so.