SATCH CAN STILL PLAY

Regarding your item on this year’s winner of the Harry’s Bar & American Grill Hemingway contest (Book Review, April 3): Gordon (Satch) Carlson is a weekly columnist for Autoweek Magazine and probably has strong claims to additional titles, such as the Hunter Thompson of motorsport, or perhaps the Art Buchwald of racing.

It is a pleasure to learn that Satch takes time out to play with words for fun, and I appreciate very much your having reprinted his winning parody. At best, I’m sure no one else came close.

MARSHALL PHILLIPS

SIMI VALLEY