Their most recent album is The Hazards of Love. Colin Meloy is the lead singer and songwriter for the band The Decemberists.Brittney Gilbert blogs for San Francisco’s CBS 5, and on her own site, Sparkwood & 21.Andrew Womack is a founding editor of The Morning News.Infinite Summer wouldn’t have been half as successful without the contributions of our guests. Many people volunteered their time and talent to write essays and commentary for us. And John Hodgman’s perfect summation of the event–“a noble and crazy enterprise”–is responsible for no small share of the attention and participants we received. While not official Guides, Matt Bucher (of the wallace-l listserv) and Nick Maniatis (of The Howling Fantods) were tireless in their promotion and encouragement. She writes a few web– comics, maintains a a tumblog, and has one of the most hilarious Twitter streams on the series of tubes. Knopf.Īvery Edison is a student of Comedy Writing at a university in England. His second novel, The Thousand, will be published next year by Alfred A. Kevin is a co-founder and commissioner of The Morning News Tournament of Books, and his essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Salon, and McSweeney’s. He was the co-author (with John Warner) and illustrator of the #1 bestseller My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Kevin Guilfoile’s bestselling debut novel Cast of Shadows–called “gripping” by the New York Times and one of the Best Books of 2005 by the Chicago Tribune and Kansas City Star–has been translated into more than 15 languages. Eden also writes yogabeans! (where her son’s action figures demonstrate the intricacies of ashtanga yoga) and Fussy (where she writes angry open letters to Justin Timberlake and chronicles her daily life). Kennedy’s most recent project is Let’s Panic About Babies (co-authored by Alice Bradley), and was called “a hilarious Onion-style website about parenting” by Redbook magazine. If you believe that awesome and generous people deserve reward, please support them in their current and future endeavors.Įden M. The Guides agreed to do all they did this summer on a volunteer basis. I’m a little unclear on how that happened, but I could not be more appreciative.
Instead, to my great fortune, the first three people I asked accepted. Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of which I expected plenty).
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