Kurt Clausen has been fired from several newspapers already. He always gets into trouble--always. It isn't that Kurt can't write; quite the contrary. It's just that much of what gets into newspapers is stupid, and Kurt can't keep his mouth shut about it. Begin to Exit Here, John Welter's first novel, offers us a comic look at the wayward press from the inside. Now in its twentieth year, this novel remains as timely as ever. John Welter began his writing career as a newspaper copy boy, buying cigarettes for the city editor. Since then he has worked as a reporter at newspapers in the Midwest and the South and published humor sketches in The Atlantic. His first book, Begin to Exit Here: A Novel of the Wayward Press, was widely praised and selected by Library Journal as a "Word of Mouth" recommendation for 1991. He lives in North Carolina, where he writes a humor column for The Chapel Hill Herald and is a manager for a mail-order company. He has never been a Secret Service agent, but sometimes wears dark glasses

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