Thursday, April 27, 2017
2:02AM
Jay Howard
Jay Howard is a flashy 36-year-old British racing driver and a former Firestone Indy Lights Series champion who qualified for his first Indianapolis 500 in 2011. Howard won the Firestone Indy Lights championship in 2006, an essential step into the top-level of open-wheel racing. Howard won the championship by four points, marking the closest margin in the Series’ storied history on the strength of two wins, two pole positions and seven podium finishes in 12 starts for Sam Schmidt Motorsports and Lucas Oil. In 2005, he took home the U.S. Formula Ford Zetec Championship and Rookie of the Year Honors, breaking the late and eventual Indy 500 winner Dan Weldon’s Series record, with nine wins. That year, he captured six pole positions and established a Series record, with six consecutive victories. Prior to qualifying for his first Indianapolis 500, Howard also won the seventh annual karting event: RoboPong 200 at Newcastle Motorsports Park.
A popular fixture at key karting classics across the country, Howard has finished first or second every year he has entered the annual PRI Show All Stars of Karting event and trains up-and-coming future stars through his Motorsport Driver Development team as well as his engine-building business, Ogden Race Engines, which he owns with his dad Paul.
with Jay Howard
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
2:02AM
David Duchovny
David Duchovny is a television, stage, and screen actor; as well as a screenwriter and director. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1982 with an A.B. in English literature. He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton. He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry.
He lives in New York and Los Angeles. His 2nd Novel, Bucky F*cking Dent, is now in paperback.
BUCKY F*CKING DENT: A Novel
David Duchovny’s richly drawn Bucky F*cking Dent explores the bonds between fathers and sons and the age-old rivalry between Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, and grapples with our urgent need to preserve—and risk everything—in the name of love. Culminating in that fateful moment in October of ’78 when the mighty Bucky Dent hit his way into baseball history with the unlikeliest of home runs, this tender, insightful, and hilarious novel demonstrates how life truly belongs to the losers, and that the long shots are the ones worth betting on. Bucky F*cking Dent is a singular tale that brims with the mirth, poignancy, and profound solitude of modern life.
with David Duchovny
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
2:15AM
Rob O'Neill: The Navy SEAL Who Shot Osama Bin Laden
Robert O’Neill was born and raised in Butte, Montana, and lived there for nineteen years until he joined the Navy in 1996. Deploying as a SEAL more than a dozen times, O’Neill participated in more than four hundred combat missions across four different theaters of war. During his remarkable career, he was decorated more than fifty-two times. Among the honors he received were two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with Valor, a Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor, three Presidential Unit Citations, and a Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Valor. Robert O’Neill helped cofound Your Grateful Nation, an organization committed to transitioning Special Operations veterans into their next successful career. You can find him at robertjoneill.com.
NAVY SEAL HERO ROBERT O’NEILL RECOUNTS HIS EXTRAORDINARY SEAL MISSIONS, INCLUDING THE MAY 2011 BIN LADEN RAID IN NEW MEMOIR THE OPERATOR FIRING THE SHOTS THAT KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN AND MY YEARS AS A SEAL TEAM WARRIOR
Growing up in Butte, Montana, Robert O’Neill lived the life of many American teens. He was a standout high school basketball player who liked to hunt. He was a good runner, but he didn’t know how to swim. After high school, he attended a local college, but joined the Navy on a whim to fight distant battles and perhaps return to the local pub “with a few war stories to impress the regulars.” Robert O’Neill would have “a few war stories” for them indeed. On April 25, Scribner will proudly publish former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill’s memoir The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (Scribner, $28.00/hardcover; on-sale: April 25, 2017) which will relate these stories and much more. An intimate and absorbing journey into the hearts, minds, and experiences of America’s most elite fighting unit, The Operator dramatically recounts O’Neill’s remarkable 400-mission career, from the extreme SEAL training he endured through the perilous missions in which he participated, including the rescues of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates and extracting “Lone Survivor” SEAL Marcus Luttrell from behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Riveting in the new glimpses it offers into a decade of intense Special Forces missions, The Operator vividly places readers alongside O’Neill as he enters mazelike buildings under the cloak of night, encounters predators attacking from false walls, and makes swift, life-saving decisions. Yet, all of the years of training and missions in the world’s most dangerous regions were a prelude to the May 2011 secret U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound, in which O’Neill fired the three shots that dispatched the world’s most wanted terrorist. In pulse-pounding, minute-by-minute detail, The Operator recounts O’Neill’s painstaking training for the bin Laden mission, what he and his fellow SEALs experienced in the wee hours that night, and what happened when O’Neill came face to face with the man who had claimed thousands of American lives. By the end of his extraordinary career, Robert O’Neill would be decorated more than fifty-two times for his service with the SEALs. The Operator recounts his historic contributions to America’s war on terror and what it was like to fight among America’s most elite combat warriors.
with Robert O'Neill