Friday Picks
Three items with a distinct “weekend” feel for your Friday:
I. Art Spiegelman has a new book that is published by McSweeney’s. It’s actually three books called, Be A Nose. They describe it like this:
…it includes a triple dose of unexpurgated Spiegelman sketchbooks from years past—you get 1979, 1983, and 2007, all in actual-size hardbound editions and wrapped in a really neat ski-gogglelike strap, with Art’s own musings and specially shaped pages and a just amazing amount of wit and weirdness and giddy, brilliant draftsmanship, enough on every page to keep you tided over through several grim news cycles, at least.
Check out the odd (in a really cool way) book trailer.
II. Speaking of videos, E. Hamish Plumbrick (Patton Oswalt) makes his boozy case for being the next poet laureate.
III. And just in time for the weekend, Lauren Groff prepared Book Notes for Largehearted Boy. The author of Delicate Edible Birds discusses songs that match up with each of the stories in the collection, as well as a suggested beer pairing. Nice. (See Nicole’s review of Delicate Edible Birds here.)
February 27, 2009 8:59 am 
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