Yum.

I would totally read a novel based on Craigslist Missed Connections.

I would also totally enjoy book reports made out of cake. (See left.)

Teenagers on Salinger.

Interlinked short stories via geocaches.

For you book design lovers: 45 beautifully designed book covers and classic titles turned into cigarette packs.

Finnegan’s Wank.

McSweeney’s reimagines The Baby-sitter’s Club for the new decade.

How to be a literary manboy of New York City.

Aaand to get you through the rest of your week: the ultimate graphic novel, in six panels: Read more »

Well, Josh Neufeld has one answer.

To commemorate the recent four-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Neufeld released A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a graphic novel that details one of the world’s worst disasters through the stories of seven real survivors.  Neufeld himself volunteered with the Red Cross in the Gulf Coast after the storm and chronicled his experiences on a blog.  A few years ago, a commenter on the blog wrote: “Do a comic. Please.” Readers were already familiar with Neufeld’s work on Harvey Pekar’s “American Splendor” so they knew that his storytelling comics had the power to convey the intensity of the disaster.

Neufeld began by writing a serialized webcomic that also included links to archival footage and other materials documenting what actually happened in the Gulf. Through multiple installments of the comic, he followed the lives of real people dealing with the aftermath of the storm. Now the comic has just been released as a book with some new additions. Read more »