Meth-Fueled Links
Andre Agassi’s new book is going to be great. Everyone everywhere is writing about how the tennis player is admitting to meth use. What I have read about only at ESPN, however, is that Agassi’s collaborator on the book is Pulitzer-prize winning author JR Moehringer. I loved Moehringer’s memoir The Tender Bar so much I was all but handing it out on street corners. I’ve been waiting for his next book. This is it.
Another blog becomes a book. The 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son blog has magically transformed to Rules for my Unborn Son – the book. The blog features bonus advice, such as this one from PJ O’Rourke: “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
Cory Doctorow has a new novel out called Makers. His Little Brother was a big hit (x2) around these parts. Like all of his books, Doctorow is also giving this one away for free if you want to check it out.
ESPN’s Bill Simmons has new book about basketball that’s making the rounds. I have been a regular reader of Simmons’s columns on Page 2 for years. It seems with every successive interview that Simmons is trying to come off as a bigger jerk than in the previous interview.
The new Superfreakonomics is chock full of – something. Read the digested version at The Guardian.
Wired brings the Fake AP Stylebook to our attention. Fascinating stuff. Did you know for example that the correct Fake AP Style is to: “Refer to him as ‘President Obama’ when he first appears in an article, ‘Soul Brother Number 1‘ in subsequent mentions.”
October 29, 2009 8:51 am 1 Comment
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By Dr J, October 29, 2009 @ 10:56 pm
I was more shocked by the revelation that Agassi had hair extensions. I guess I figured any hairdo that ugly had to be real.