It’s been a while, so I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the book progress and what I’ve been up to.

• As you probably know, I sent a draft of my book to my publisher, Da Capo Books, in April. They accepted it for publication. It’ll be out in early 2011, if all goes well. Yes, that is a long time from now, but that seems to be how book publishing goes. When all is said and done, I’ll have been working with the idea for almost three years.
• I haven’t gotten back detailed edits yet, but I will soon. In the meantime, if you’re interested in reading pieces of the draft, I’d be most grateful.
• About a week after finishing the book, I stumbled into another crazy project and co-founded 48 Hour Magazine with a group of friends. For whatever reason, what we thought would be a small project among friends blossomed into a global collaboration that received 1,500 submissions. What we produced in just two days of editing time (and two total weeks of having any kind of organization) is pretty awesome, I think. Then — and you might have seen coming — we got sent a cease-and-desist letter by CBS and written about in the New York Times and a bunch of other awesome places. It was tremendous fun, but exhausting; my skull hurt for days. Getting any extracurricular writing done has been really hard.
• That said, I have written a couple of appreciations for HiLoBrow, the culture site edited by my friends Joshua Glenn and Matthew Battles. My last two were Notorious B.I.G. and Paul Ehrlich.