
This comes completely out of the blue, anonymously. DAVID GREGORY SMITH (Author, "Dinner with a Perfect Stranger"): And he receives an invitation to dine one night at a nice Italian restaurant.

"Dinner with a Perfect Stranger" opens when Nick Cominsky, an overworked, stressed-out 30-something Cincinnati businessman, receives an odd letter. A couple of years ago, he decided to write a book in which Jesus sits down with a modern man for dinner and a philosophical conversation.

For the Wednesday book report, DAY TO DAY's Karen Grigsby Bates spoke with writer David Gregory, whose "Dinner with a Perfect Stranger" expands on that idea.ĭavid Gregory Smith-who uses his first two names as his pen name-is a former Texas businessman who's now an ordained minister.
If you read celebrity interviews, you know that when you get to the `If-you-could-have-dinner-with-any-three-people-in-history-who-would-they -be' question, a lot of people answer Jesus.
