When former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld publishes his memoir on February 8th, McSweeney’s will publish a “high-wire allegory” entitled Donald on the same day.
Written by Stephen Elliott and Eric Martin, the novel will be a paperback original searching for a sympathetic side to the former Secretary of Defense.
We caught up with Elliott to find out more about the book. He explained: “Originally it was my idea. I heard something about Guantanamo one day and I thought, I wonder what would happen if Donald Rumsfeld was in his own prisons. How would he survive? But I’m not very good at those kind of books, books that are purely fiction so I contacted Eric Martin, who is very good at it.”
He continued: ” And we started working on it together. Then we went up north for a few days where a friend of his had a house in Point Reyes that was empty for the weekend and we worked on it some more and I told him I was done … A year or two passes and Eric writes me and says he’s finished it. There’s a little bit of editing and then the book you have in your hands.”