Article: Michael Korda: Simon & Schuster's editor in chief makes time to talk about Marking Time, his newest book.(Interview)

IF MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, I FIRST "MET" MICHAEL KORDA BACK IN THE eighties--figuratively, via an article he'd written for The New York Times on his travels in Africa. Korda's descriptions, particularly of hot air ballooning over Kenya, were so vivid and passionate that I saved the article as inspiration to one day adventure to the eastern hemisphere's exotic continent myself.

Now, some two decades later, Michael Korda has remarkably succeeded in bringing that same vivid imagery and passion to his latest book, Marking Time: Collecting Watches--and Thinking about Time (Barnes & Noble Books, $14.95, 198 pages). Truly, if after reading this book, one is not ...

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