Super-cool baseball infographics site Flip Flop Fly Ball is set to become what will no doubt be a stunning book put out by Bloomsbury and arriving in Spring 2011.
Baseball Infographics Book
Ten Years in the Making
" I love the shape of words, I love the comet-tail histories of words. I love the roll and crunch of syllables in my mouth." In Electric Literature, Laura van den Berg interviews R.O. Kwon about religious fanaticism, "unknowing," and her upcoming debut novel, The Incendiaries. Pair with: Kwon's 2017 Year in Reading.
PDT Cocktail Book
With New Year's Eve looming, LA Weekly is forgoing their usual cookbook of the week in favor of a cocktail book--The PDT Cocktail Book by Jim Meehan and illustrator Chris Gall, the only beverage book that made it into their Best of 2011 "cookbook" list.
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Tao Lin Interviews Ben Lerner
Tao Lin interviews Leaving the Atocha Station author Ben Lerner for The Believer. You can also check out an excerpt from Lerner's book here.
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Glamour’s Page 194 Girl
At Glamour's blog, the fashion magazine shot heard round the world: a nude photo of a girl who--gasp!--wears a size 12 and doesn't have a six-pack. And, she looks happy. Apparently, this is what readers of fashion magazines have been waiting for.
Who Keeps the Gatekeepers?
Are you embarrassed about your lack of literary inheritance? You're not alone. Here's a great piece by Annie Liontas at The New York Times on those first, lonely forays into the literary world: "But I see my experience as an immigrant into the world of letters as a blessing. Being an outsider is the origin of my imagination; it gives me the constant consciousness that my perspective is only one of many and that there are myriad ways of being in the world. It grants me the gift of being attuned to the voices in the room, as well as all of those shut out of it."
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