"Primer on David Aames Senior. My father wasn't built for the 21st century. He never went to McDonald's, not once. He never watched television, and yet... his biggest magazine is still the TV Digest. He and my mother threw the grandest parties of the literary world. Ballooned. Jumped out of airplanes. He sought adventure. His autobiography is the manual... for every cutthroat publisher in New York City."