
Tea eggs with sichuan salt and scallions at The Lantern/all photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman
I hate book tours. I hate leaving my
house. But years ago when I was interviewing
David McCullough for my book
Wooden Boats, he noted how he hears that from authors all the time and said in his typical exuberant way, and with that inimitable voice, “I
love book tours!” It helps that he is universally adored, of course, and is a fine and generous man fawned over wherever he appears. But I thought of him on my return from Durham and Chapel Hill where
Anton Zuiker—communications director for
Duke Medical Center 9 to 5, and journalist,
blogger, husband, dad, angel and friend at all other hours—masterminded a book tour stop for me, in honor of ...
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