The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide Get
your copy at Indiebound, Powell’s Books or Amazon. Follow us on
Twitter. And be our friend on Facebook. About the book: The Word Made
Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide is a guide to the
emerging subculture of literary tattoos — a collection of 100
full-color photographs of human skin indelibly adorned with quotations
and images from Pynchon to Dickinson to Shakespeare to Plath. Packed
with beloved lines of verse, literary portraits, and illustrations —
and statements from the bearers on their tattoos’ history and the
personal significance of the chosen literary work — The Word Made
Flesh is part photo collection, part literary anthology written on
skin. Special features include a reprint of a short story by Donald
Barthelme (along with the tattoo it inspired on the author’s
daughter), an interview with Brian Evenson about seeing his own work
tattooed on someone else, Shelley Jackson’s SKIN Project and Rick
Moody’s Shelley Jackson tattoo, Jonathan Lethem’s homage to Philip
K. Dick, Tao Lin’s Tao Lin tattoo, and more. Media highlights:
Feature in The New York Times Sunday Book Review; Listing in The New
York Times Holiday Gift Guide; Interview and online slideshow in
NPR’s “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook and “To the Best of Our
Knowledge” with Steve Paulson; Article in the New Yorker’s Book
Bench blog (reposted on The Daily Dish); Feature article and slideshow
in The Huffington Post; Feature in the August/September issue of Shelf
Unbound, Interview and photo gallery in The Daily Beast; Feature
article in the Boston Phoenix; Brief article about book trailer in the
Observer.com; Link in Boing Boing’s 2011 Holiday Gift Guide; Feature
article in Interview Magazine; Interview and slideshow in Paper;
Feature article in NBCNewYork.com; Article and slideshow in AOL News;
Feature article on NYPost.com and the Brooklyn Paper; Article about
book trailer in New York Magazine.com; Interview in the Miami New
Times.com; Interview in Mediabistro’s GalleyCat; Interview in The L
Magazine; Interview in the Examiner.com; Feature article in
Canada.com; Article about book trailer in PW.com; Feature article in
Ink Butter; Brief article about book trailer in BlackBookMag.com;
Brief article about book proposal in USAToday.com; Article about book
proposal in Forbes.com. About the editors: Eva Talmadge’s fiction
has appeared in Subtropics, The New York Tyrant, The Agriculture
Reader, The New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. Visit her at
evatalmadge.net. Justin Taylor is the author of The Gospel of Anarchy
and Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever. He also edited The
Apocalypse Reader, an anthology of short fiction about the end of the
world. Visit him at justindtaylor.net. Got a literary tattoo? Click
here to submit it to the blog. But first, please make sure your pic is
in focus, and please do not send pictures with blood in them. Thanks.
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