26 review of “her haunting new book… the first major commercial nonfiction book on the subject” and, on Nov. 22 interview an Oct 25 Sunday Review column by Schiff a laudatory Oct. 7 New Yorker and no fewer than four New York Times features in one week, including an Oct.
Soaring to the top of best-sellerdom has required a long excerpt in the Sept. Meanwhile, not only Colbert but credulous reviewers are crediting The Witches with unearthing new revelations about Puritans. That part of the schedule is just for starters: Miami? Savannah? She’s going. 2, the Smithsonian the next day-and many more, right up to (drum roll, please) Salem, Massachusetts. 28, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Oct 29, back to Gotham for a New York Public Library luncheon and “The Late Show”, then to Philadelphia on Nov. ‘That’s much nicer than burning, kind of a happier ending than I thought,’ the host joked.”īut it’s taken more than a joke and a broomstick to whisk Schiff from a Manhattan Barnes & Noble on Oct. 27 to take advantage of the witchy holiday” and that Colbert “was surprised to learn from Schiff that the Salem witches were hanged, not burned at the stake.
Stacy Schiff was “dressed up like a whiskered black cat to play along with the Halloween costume edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” enthused an item in USA TODAY, noting that Schiff’s fat new book, The Witches: Salem, 1692, “was published (cleverly) on Oct.
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