Official website of the author
A nice mention for Defending Jacob on this morning’s Today Show. Thank you, Charlaine Harris. (This is just a brief 60-second clip. You can watch the whole segment here.)
Also this week, Amazon included Defending Jacob on its list of the best books of 2012 so far. Not a bad week.
Book trailer for The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game by my friend John Fox (on sale May 14). The footage shows the Kirkwell Ba’, an ancient “folk football” game played twice a year, on Christmas and New Years Day, in the streets of Kirkwall, a tiny coastal town in Orkney, northern Scotland.
On this morning’s “Anderson,” Anderson Cooper’s new talk show, Nicholas Sparks named Defending Jacob his #1 recommendation for summer reading. I’m floored. Thank you, Nicholas Sparks, wherever you are!
The oldest surviving video of an American football game, Yale vs. Princeton in 1903 (via Kottke)
Sir Ken Robinson: “Do schools kill creativity?” Still the best TED talk ever.
Random House has produced this 15-second ad for Defending Jacob. Fun.