BobHarris.com - Plug-O-Rama

Books! Actual books!

"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"

-- The Wall Street Journal

"Pulls you in like a good sports story"

-- The New York Times Book Review

"Endearingly frank... jubilant... lighthearted and fast-paced"

-- New York Newsday

"A surprisingly touching memoir"

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Snappy and informative"

-- Associated Press

"Effortlessly funny and informative... tender, human, and very wise... A must for anyone who loves Jeopardy!, or has ever seen it, or is breathing."

-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I haven't seen Jeopardy! since I was a kid, and yet I was charmed and amused by Bob Harris's fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful book. Through sheer force of personality, he takes this brainy TV show and makes it funny and easy to relate to."

-- Ira Glass, creator and host, This American Life

"A surprisingly intimate, entertaining book."

-- Orson Scott Card, 4-time Hugo Award winner, author of Ender's Game

"Funny, enlightening -- and just might help you win a million bucks on Jeopardy!"

-- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All

"A masterful job of describing the feel of Jeopardy! in the heat of battle... I knew Bob was a great guy and a fantastic Jeopardy! player. Now I've found that he's also a wonderful writer. I think I'm starting to hate him."

-- Brad Rutter, top money-winner in Jeopardy! history

Books I'm Getting

Who Hates Whom:
Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts,
and Various Things Blowing Up —
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

“Revelatory... Harris's sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating... witty, horrific, and necessary.”

— Boston Globe

"Brave... irreverent... charges into the thick of the globe's myriad simmering wars... hilariously relaxed."

— New York Observer

"Only Bob could make a user’s guide to our increasingly hostile world this absorbing, this breezy, and—ultimately—this hopeful.”

— Ken Jennings, author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING. A gimlet-eyed look at the world we endure that’s also suitable for enjoying with a gimlet.”

— John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

"All three [presidential] candidates should read all three of these [recommended] books, but McCain gets first crack at Bob Harris's "Who Hates Whom“... a lighthearted overview of the insurrections and civil wars in the world today."

— Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought, in the New York Times Book Review

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Sunday, 19 March 2006

Busy times in puduland. A few plugs:

Scott Bateman, a terrific cartoonist friend, has a new magazine/chapbook/buncha damn words called Unruly. I just got it in the mail, and it's a dark riot. I've chipped in a bit, and you'll also find stuff from Scott, Paul Scheer, and a bunch of other wicked fun folks.

Proud to be a Liberal, a new collection from Ig Publishing, features rabble-rousing essays from Eric Altermann, Will Durst, Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Matt Iglesias, and a bunch of others. I'm in there somewhere, too.

I just wrote a forward to Revelations, a collection of the six-issue series from Dark Horse Comics. It's a pretty cool book, so it was easy to praise.

Incidentally, the long-threatened original comic series now has an artist attached whom I really like. So that's finally about to go forward.

Also, the book I've been working on has passed the copyediting stage and will be published in the fall. More on that coming. Way more. The first blurbs are in, and I'm happy to say that so far, it appears not to suck much.

Finally -- and I am not making this up -- I have been asked by professors at Harvard and Cornell to contribute the "Historiography: African American" entry in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of African Thought, to be published by Routledge in 2008.

How this happened I have no idea. I assume it is a case of mistaken identity, but they contacted me through this very website. This is fabulous. I don't even know what "historiography" means. How they came to think I am African -- much less whether I can be accused of "thought" -- I have no idea. I will have to find a way to break the news to Harvard and Cornell.

Oh, and Tom Tomorrow's new book (there he is again) is on the right. I still guest-blog over at TMW, and I was a huge fan for years before I was lucky enough to become a friend and then (I still think this is cool as hell) the voice of Sparky the penguin. Book is good. You will enjoy.

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