All The Cool Guys Are Doing It (NSFWish)

Everyone knows that attaching a celebrity to your cause is a great way to garner attention. Brad Pitt is running around New Orleans, Rosie O'Donnell works with children of gay families, Angelina and Madonna are on world-wide adoption sprees, Sting is running around the rain forest, Dolly Parton has Dollywood, Bono does things for Africa, the list goes on and on. It's a good way to give back.

Inspired by those old READ posters that covered my elementary and junior high libraries, I was able to convince these, ahem, celebrities, to strip down to promote the reading of contemporary fiction with the promise that I would cover their important inches with the covers of books I've read recently.

Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica


Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman


Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt


A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Puhle


Empire Falls by Richard Russo


Better of McSweeney's, Dave Eggers, ed.