Simon Critchley has compiled a book of marvelous and funny anecdotes about the deaths of some 190 philosophers, ancient and modern.
In addition, Ms. Smith has compiled a book version of the project, scheduled to be published by Random House this fall, called "Talk to Me".
"In the distance, chopper noise, to the west upwind, the whop-whop-whop approaching like swarms of dragonflies, banking nose up," read Dayl S. Wise, who served in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970, and who has compiled a book of poems by himself and other veterans, "Post-Traumatic Press 2007".
So it was with great joy that I found out he had compiled a book out of the filthy and sweet, perverted and lovely, hysterical and horrifying columns he wrote for Rumpus about becoming a father in what should be the beginning of his Golden Years.
That's according to the readers at the Millions, whose editors have compiled a list of the books they're looking forward to -- 89 titles in all.
And in the tableaus they have created for the new Imax-3D film "Journey of Man" they have compiled an all-engulfing sensuous wonder book of aesthetic adventures with a light moral gloss.
One friend recently confessed that he had learned to speak Elvish, and true believers have any number of Tolkien societies and fanzines to choose from; I own a slim publication entitled "The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth," by Ruth S. Noel, who seems perfectly unbothered at having compiled a phrase book for a country that does not exist.
Los Angeles lawyer David Kenney, who has compiled a voluminous tasting book listing every malt he's learned of, most of them independent bottlings, recalls the first time he let a really old single malt linger in his mouth: "I could taste everything that went into it.
