Artist Stefanie Posavec has analyzed Jack Kerouac's On the Road, breaking it down by theme, by sentence length, and other such metrics. Then she has graphed the information. The results make for compelling viewing--at least as good as the book, for my money. Click on the images below to see more examples and to read … Continue reading On the Road Exploded
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No Giggles, Please
Mary Roach, author of Spook and Stiff (about the afterlife and cadavers, respectively), has chosen an altogether sunnier topic for her latest book. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex covers the fascinating world of human sexual behavior. Her recent interview at salon.com shows just how far the author was willing to go in … Continue reading No Giggles, Please
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In 1980, there appeared a most interesting memoir--Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League. Ostensibly written by Cleo Birdwell, its author is in fact Don DeLillo, and its subject never existed. According to the article, "The Puck Stopped Here", published in BookForum, DeLillo's publisher at the … Continue reading Truthy
Musings from Magers and Quinn 