[Newspoetry] From the Publishers Weekly newsline

[gillespie william k]

...gossip from Book Expo America...

Dana Gilligan of Bookends in Ridgewood, N.J., remembers Tipper Gore
causing Al Gore to blush at the Sunday breakfast. Reacting to Pat
Conroy's reference to erections and Jean Auel's homo erectus, she
said, "My husband is definitely not stiff."

...there you have it folks. Al Gore has been described as "wooden." If
only...