12 Responses to “Books”

1. Zak Jarvis says:
   April 14, 2009 at 2:08 am

   Dude! You’ve got a Playboy photospread!

   I bet you never imagined that’d happen. Is there a picture of you by the fire with a big scarf?

2. josh says:
   April 14, 2009 at 7:06 am

   Looks like you forgot to bring a firearm to the photo shoot, eh? Well, now you know for next time.

3. Alex Carnegie says:
   April 14, 2009 at 7:29 am

   “I just read it for the book reviews…”

4. Jeff VanderMeer says:
   April 14, 2009 at 7:42 am

   Seriously, this is the most harmless gentleman’s mag I’ve ever seen, not that I’m claiming to have seen any. I wouldn’t post photos of it otherwise, frankly. Wish I could tell the stories of the various bizarre sexually explicit things that’ve been shoved my way on book tours, though. Someday.

   Meanwhile: please focus yer eyeball thingees on: Joanna Russ book, Star Wars pop out book, J. Robert Lennon collection, etc.

5. Matt Staggs says:
   April 14, 2009 at 11:34 am

   I hope you’re not the centerfold model!

6. Ennis Drake says:
   April 14, 2009 at 12:50 pm

   Jeff, I noticed the heading “Nowa Fantastyka” in one of the Playboy photos. I’ve submitted work there . . . what’s your experience with the publication been like? Or is that bit completely unrelated?

   I’m digging on that Moribito II cover. And the Tim Lebbon title is total eye candy; never read him, but if I saw that on the shelf it’d be mine.

7. Jeff VanderMeer says:
   April 14, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   Hey–that’s probably an excerpt from City of Saints they published in Nowa. I haven’t seen it or directly submitted to it.

8. Marty Stephenson says:
   April 14, 2009 at 1:28 pm

   I think I’ll pick up ‘The Language of Bees’.

9. Michael says:
   April 14, 2009 at 2:21 pm

   Is there a Gray Cap centerfold in that Playboy?

10. Larry says:
    April 14, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    I read the Satrapi book (Chicken with Plums) this past weekend and it reminded me of Maus in a good way, without any slavish imitation there. Now I want to read her Persepolis stories sometime. Do want to read the Mendlesohn book on Russ sometime – whose the publisher? I wonder what connection, if any, Goats have with Typewriters, though.

    I guess we all should be thankful you didn’t appear in the Polish edition of Playgirl? :P

11. Jeff VanderMeer says:
    April 14, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Larry: I think the Russ is from the same publishers as that German writer antho.

12. Larry says:
    April 14, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    Wesleyan? Cool, I might write to them and ask for a review copy soon, then.