On eve of final Late Shows, I say Shrink Thyself, Bill Scheft! VIDEO - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob A

Today's Guest: Bill Scheft, author of novels including Shrink Thyself, Everything Hurts, The Ringer, and Time Won't Let Me. He is also a long-time writer for "The Late Show with David Letterman."

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Bill Scheft, author of novels including Shrink Thyself, Everything Hurts, The Ringer, and Time Won't Let Me, as well as a long-time writer for "The Late Show with David Letterman," by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of monologue lovers who are so glad I’m not doing one today… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Charlie Traub wants to be sportswriter John Feinstein.

Bill Scheft want to be Philip Roth — or maybe Bruce Jay Friedman.

The difference?

Traub is a fictional character. He has no chance.
BILL SCHEFT podcast excerpt: "The book, Shrink Thyself, is about a guy trying to live a non-psychological life. He leaves therapy and tries to lead an unexamined life. I thought it would be a great inside joke with myself if I wrote the book in the first person because this guy, trying to live in the moment, is so self-involved, so self-absorbed. It's a joke I hoped the reader would pick up on."
You can LISTEN to this interview with "LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN" writer BILL SCHEFT, author of SHRINK THYSELF, by clicking the audio player above!

Scheft, on the other hand, I’ll give a .463 shot at it. Why .463? That was famed Boston Red Sox rightfielder Tony Conigliaro’s career slugging percentage.

What does Conigliaro have to do with it? If you don’t know, you obviously haven’t read Scheft’s fourth novel, Shrink Thyself, have you?
BILL SCHEFT podcast excerpt: "Every comic (looks at David Letterman) and thinks, 'I could do that. I do a monologue; I've got plenty of time. Ask a few questions.' And you know what? Every comic is right. They could do it -- for a night. For