By Drew Grant 9/25/12 2:26pm

Twitter books

Adam Scott, Humblebragger

Parks and Recreation Stars Shill for New Humblebrag Book, No Big Deal (Video)

Whenever we go home for high school reunions or run into college friends at bars, they always ask the same question: What’s it like working for one of the most prestigious salmon-colored newspapers in New York City, the media capital of the world? And it’s like, they don’t even know that it’s not all that glamorous: half the time when we’re not at movie premieres flirting with Jon Hamm or taking yet another lunch at Michael’s, we’re looking at random videos on the internet, the same as everyone else.

That’s how we stumbled on this trailer for Harris Wittels’s Humblebrag book, based on his addictive Twitter. Read More

By Drew Grant 9/21/11 4:01pm

Graphic Novels

maus

Art Spiegelman Gets MetaMaus With New Book Trailer [Video]

Maus, Art Spiegelman‘s graphic novel series where Nazis are cats and Jewish people are mice (and the Swedish are inexplicably reindeer) is still the only comic book to have won a Pulitzer. As the story progresses, the art in Maus gets pretty meta — Mr. Spiegelman inserts himself into the narrative by interviewing his Holocaust-surviving father, who is a mouse, (as is Mr. Spiegelman) but at certain parts his character lifts off his mask and behind it there a person. But that isn’t Art Spielgman either, just another facsimile of his persona that he created in attempt to understand his relationship with his own story. Read More