Good news! I've written a new book, the most personal I've ever done. It's called Here Comes Trouble, Stories From My Life and has 24 stories based on events in my early life before I became a filmmaker. They tell how the “personal” slowly boiled up and unexpectedly exploded into the “political".

This is my first major book in nearly eight years. If you'll allow me to say this – I think it's the best damn thing I've ever written.

All the stories are nonfiction. From a chance encounter at age 11 with Bobby Kennedy to a tense moment in Virginia outside a rest-room door marked “Colored”; from a neighborhood gay kid who was beaten up to the night some in my church cheered the news of Martin Luther King's death; from planning my escape to Canada during the Vietnam War to having my newspaper raided by police; from confronting Ronald Reagan in a German cemetery as he laid a wreath on the graves of Nazi soldiers to surviving a terrorist massacre by showing up 20 minutes late. All this was my life before I thought of putting film in a camera.

I promise not to wait another eight years until the next book.

Michael Moore
Flint, Michigan, U.S.

(September 14, 2011)



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