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The Abominable (and hilarious) Attorney

The publisher sent me a copy of Jeremy Blachman‘s book, Anonymous Lawyer (book|blog). It’s hilarious. In fact, it’s far better than it has any right to be: It’s told in the form of blog posts, with occasional email asides, which would seem to be a tough limitation, and it’s about a one-sided character who is the most career-focused, shallowest, nastiest person you’ve ever imagined. But Jeremy pulls it off because he is a deeply talented writer. He is also fearless. A lesser author would have tried to curry the reader’s sympathy. Nope. Not Jeremy. That takes guts. But it pays off in laughs…appalled laughs.

I don’t want to set your expectations too high, because that’s a sure way to kill a humor book. But I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

PS: In his personal blog, Jeremy reviews “Keeping Up with the Steins” and says: “The movie didn’t know what it wanted to be — a farce about the excesses of bar mitzvahs, or a tug-at-the-heartstrings family comedy. And so it floated in between, and ended up not terribly satisfying.” Anonymous Lawyer does not suffer from that problem. [Tags: ]


While we’re talking about the intersection of blogs and books, you might want to take a look at the site for a book in progress, Search Analytics for Your Site, by Louis Rosenfeld and Richard Wiggins. Lou Rosenfeld’s new company, Rosenfeld Media, (Disclosure: yes, I’m on the board of advisors) is trying to be innovative and open about the publishing of books. They’re also publishing Card Sorting by Donna Maurer, with whom I got to bond over Eleanor Rosch at the Information Architecture Summit

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