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Sins of Commission?

Michael Grunwald’s The Swamp is making news.

Getting seduced by Lab Lit–

Books are wonderful things, and fortunately for authors they keep on being discovered long after the initial work is done. WhipPoorWill explains why The Tapir’s Morning Bath is such good reading.

That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger – New York Times

Though Dan Coyle has written THE book on Lance Armstrong, he doesn’t have inside info on Armstrong’s cancelled wedding with Sheryl Crow this past weekend. But in Play, the NY Times new sports magazine, Coyle explains ultra long distance biking star Jure Robic, who will bike 3,000 in nine days, spend the last three in a frighteningly delusional hallucinatory state, and take home enough money to pay his crew.

Then do it again three weeks later. Everyone hopes Armstrong enters the race this year, maybe because then the prize money will actually mean something. In the meantime Coyle helps us wonder about the meaning of such extreme performance and the limits of the human body and mind.

E-Waste@Large – New York Times

Whatever are we to do with all the electronic waste we accumulate as we upgrade our gadgets and systems? Garbage Land author Elizabeth Royte has some suggestions.

SlushPile.net » Interview: Claire Howorth, Publicist

Worth reading if you’re interested in books and publishing, and she suggests all authors read Elizabeth Royte’s Publish and Perish piece from the October 23, 2005 NY Times Book Review.