After former Bill Clinton speechwriter John Pollack was featured with his cork boat in the Washington Post’s gossip column in September 2001, a friend chided him: “Right now, there’s some third-term ...

Two days after his new book “Cork Boat” was released, author John Pollack walked into a neighborhood bookstore in Brooklyn to find his work displayed on a table marked “New Fiction.” He wasn’t too ...

John Pollack, a former Clinton speech-writer and Hill staffer, with a partner, built a boat out of 165,321 corks, took it to Portugal and sailed it down the Douro River to the sea to the enthusiastic ...

Strap 160,000 cork stoppers together and what do you get? Realizing a 30-year-old dream, American John Pollock is on his way down one of Portugal's largest rivers, from the border with Spain to the ...

Of all the fool’s errands to warrant a book contract, building a boat out of wine corks and sailing it down a Portuguese river in the heart of cork country has to rank pretty high on the list. Cork ...