Earlier this week, we read what health experts are saying about the summer’s best-selling diet books. There’s the usual assortment of good, bad, and confusing advice in the titles reviewed, and really, not much has changed. We traveled back in time to amuse ourselves with the strange, charming, and hilarious diet/beauty books of the past. Here are 20 book covers advertising some crazy ways to beautify and boost your health. … Read More
How McSweeney’s Became a Literary Institution
When the Harry Ransom Center comes calling for your archives, it is pretty safe to say that you’ve become a figure of major cultural significance. The library, archive, and museum at the University of Texas houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art, including the First Folio of William Shakespeare’s plays, the Cardigan manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, as well as the manuscript collections of James Joyce, T. E. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, Norman Mailer, Anne Sexton, Don DeLillo, Graham Greene, Brian Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others.
As of last week, McSweeney’s, the publishing company founded by Dave Eggers in 1998, added their name to that list of notables, as the Ransom Center announced it had acquired the publisher’s archive of book manuscripts, essays, and short stories; correspondence drawn from the publishing house’s work with hundreds of writers; and its award-winning design materials. … Read More
As of last week, McSweeney’s, the publishing company founded by Dave Eggers in 1998, added their name to that list of notables, as the Ransom Center announced it had acquired the publisher’s archive of book manuscripts, essays, and short stories; correspondence drawn from the publishing house’s work with hundreds of writers; and its award-winning design materials. … Read More
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