Monday, July 14, 2008

John McNally Uses Superpowers for Good

From MAKE 5 contributor John McNally:

My new book WHO CAN SAVE US NOW?: BRAND-NEW SUPERHEROES AND THEIR AMAZING (SHORT) STORIES, coedited with writer extraordinaire Owen King, is available now from Amazon and should be available everywhere soon if it isn’t already on the shelves. As the title states, the book features 22 brand-spanking-new stories featuring brand-spanking-new superheroes, with a few villains thrown in for good measure. (For those of you who happen to be from -- or around -- Burbank, Illinois, my story features a superhero who lives in Burbank.) A few of the writers included are Jennifer Weiner, George Singleton, David Yoo, Elizabeth Crane, Richard Dooling, Jim Shepard, Will Clarke, Kelly Braffet, J. Robert Lennon, Sean Doolittle, Tom Bissell, and Sam Weller. It also includes kick-ass illustrations by the wildly talented Chris Burnham.

MAKE Reviews Editor has a Handle on Books


G.M. Levinson, reviews editor and resident DJ, has taken his love of books to the streets. With a bike specially designed for his purpose, Levinson is pedaling books throughout Chicago. But by pedaling, we mean literally. Just as they were donated to his project, Somethingtoread.net, they will be donated to the public.

“My greatest love in life is reading books,” Levinson says. “And even more than that is sharing books with people, so I really wanted to figure out [a way to] get books into peoples’ hands.”
Time Out Chicago / Issue 176 : Jul 10–16, 2008