Michael Kodas

Rainy Day Books, Kansas City’s most venerable bookstore, is hosting a multimedia program promoting High Crimes in Kansas City. Michael will be appearing at the RDB-sponsored event at the Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W. 47th St. in Kansas City, Missouri on Thursday, June 26th at 7 pm.Admission of $24.95 plus tax includes two tickets to the event as well as a hardcover copy of High Crimes from Rainy Day Books, which Michael will sign after the presentation. Please visit the Rainy Day Books website for more information.

A few weeks ago I presented the multimedia program promoting High Crimes at Google, as part of their “Authors @ Google” series. I imagine I was as entertained by my tour of the Cambridge, MA facility, with its geometric, primary-colored furniture, catered lunchroom, video games and musical instruments, as the Google employees were by my talk, photographs, and slideshow. Google has graciously put up the entirety of my presentation at YouTube.

The California Literary Review gave High Crimes their highest rating in the May 15th issue. Reviewer John Holt wrote:

 By the time I was halfway through High Crimes I was disgusted with everyone involved with Everest, even the so-called good guys, who hadn’t done nearly enough to clean up the situation. By the end of the book I was angry. What’s going on at this mountain and many others represents everything that is wrong, that is despicable in not only mountaineering and adventure travel but human behavior overall. 

 Read the review in its entirety here. 

For those of you who got to watch overtime golf rather than my appearance on the Sunday edition of the CBS evening news (the extra holes in the golf tournament preempted the entire news broadcast in the East and Midwest), here’s a link to my interview with anchor Russ Mitchell.

http://tinyurl.com/552jvz  

Michael will be presenting a multimedia lecture and signing copies of High Crimes at the Borders in Farmington, CT, on May 18th at 2 PM. The Farmington Borders is just south of Westfarms Mall, at 1600 Southeast Rd./Route 71.

Russ Mitchell, anchor of the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News, interviewed Michael Kodas last week for a segment the news program is airing Sunday, April 27th - that’s tonight.

Russ and Michael discussed Michael’s book, High Crimes, as well as the ongoing Chinese climb of Mount Everest with the Olympic torch, and how that climb is bringing new dangers to Everest. The Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News airs at 6:00 or 6:30 PM EST, depending on the area (please check your local listings), right before 60 Minutes.We hope you can catch the program. Feel free to send us your comments if you do. 

Check out Michael’s interview with Faith Salie, host of the Public Radio International program Fair Game.

You can check out my appearance at the Sierra Club Radio website. 

Entertainment Weekly gave High Crimes an “A-” in their review, which stated that “Like Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, High Crimes, an account of an Everest ascent, effectively strips the journey of all sentiment…Kodas forever dispels whatever romantic ideas readers may hold about the great Himalayan peak.” Check the review in its entirety at the Entertainment Weekly website, or in the magazine.

I’ll be visiting the New Canaan Library to present a multimedia program about High Crimes on Sunday, Feb. 24th at 4 pm. Elm Street Books will be on hand with books. For more information contact Kathleen Millard at Elm Street Books at 203-966-4545 or email her at kathleen@elmstreetbooks.com.