A sort-of memoir

Los Angeles Magazine, a sophisticated West-Coast glossy, has just put Hannibal and Me on its "reading list" for January.

I'm in the non-fiction category, obviously. More interesting is perhaps the one-line description they've given me. I still struggle to say in one breath what my book is; so I'm endlessly curious how other people do it in one breath.

The editors at LA Mag went with:

Hannibal—remember the guy who invaded Rome on elephants two thousand-plus years ago?—is the starting point for this sort-of memoir from the West Coast correspondent of The Economist.

A sort-of-memoir. Hmmm. Why not?

Let's see what the next one kicks up.