Gordon Atkinson at Wizard Academy on a Friday in January, 2026.

This is a truly remarkable passage from
Tom Miller’s strange and wonderful book,
“Revenge of the Saguaro.”

Fifteen years ago, an assembled crowd
at Wizard Academy had the pleasure of
Tom Miller reading this to us.
We were mesmerized.

The passage below was written by none other than
Pete Hamill as part of of the Foreword  he wrote for
Tom Miller’s “Revenge of the Saguaro”

My favorite of Pete Hamill’s books, surprisingly, is “Why Sinatra Matters” (1999)