Author Description

"Brilliant!" says Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight. "Patchett has managed to out-Flannery Flannery O'Connor!" The "Horse" that comedy writer Tom Patchett (Carol Burnett Show, Bob Newhart Show, co-creator of Buffalo Bill and ALF) rode in is an illustrated memoir that spans the first 84 years of his whipsaw life. Asked for his "source of inspiration, he answered without hesitation, "Absurdity was my co-pilot."