A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo.  

Publishers Marketplace just reported the news first. Adam Bellow (once literary editor here) will be the editor at Bombardier Books, and Jonathan Bronitsky at Athos made the sale.  

The book is described as:

a humorous novel drawing on three decades of life inside the nation’s capital to portray the entertaining, status-conscious, and human ecosystem of Washington, offering a portrait of the city behind the headlines that blends social satire........

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