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I would like to read books by more MeFi writers. I have therefore made a list of who they are and their books.

posted by paduasoy to MetaFilter-related at 5:03 AM (101 comments total) 96 users marked this as a favorite

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I have read:

Mother Shock
Narrating Women's History in Britain
Revolting Librarians Redux
Are You Dave Gorman?

and can recommend all of them. Mother Shock is an important book, I think, from the reactions of the new mothers I gave it to, and good for anyone spending time with babies and small children. Narrating Women’s History discusses the relationships between ideas of the past, gender, and story-telling. Revolting Librarians Redux is fascinating not only for librarians, but anyone interested in reading, social politics, gender or instutions.

I’m halfway through The Android’s Dream and enjoying it now an amusing and believable female character has appeared.

And grumblebee, I wish you would write a book on Shakespeare or the theatre generally.
posted by paduasoy at 5:03 AM on February 23, 2008

something for the wiki
posted by terrapin at 5:13 AM on February 23, 2008 [2 favorites]

Definitely a wiki thing, plus you forgot me.
posted by yerfatma at 5:32 AM on February 23, 2008

Awesomeness. Thanks, paduasoy.
posted by grouse at 5:37 AM on February 23, 2008

Excellent.

and comments by another MeFite What is his MeFi name?
posted by bru at 5:52 AM on February 23, 2008

Author list thread from October last year.
posted by peacay at 5:53 AM on February 23, 2008

maias on Amazon
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:03 AM on February 23, 2008

I also wrote a book.
posted by Dr. Wu at 6:20 AM on February 23, 2008

Andi Buchanan's Daring Book for Girls is no longer forthcoming; it's out. (Got it for my daughter for Christmas, it's awesome!)
posted by headspace at 6:22 AM on February 23, 2008

A good number of MeFites have PhDs. If their dissertations have been published or are available over the internet, it would be cool to have a list of those too. Perhaps those who are in the sciences wouldn't get too many readers but I think Humanities dissertations would be of interest to a few.
posted by BigSky at 6:26 AM on February 23, 2008

I have a nifty little novel called "Sea Otters Gambolling in the Wild, Wild Surf" on my shelf, which I'm positive I got from a MeFite, but can't find at the moment.

Oh, here it is.
posted by gleuschk at 6:31 AM on February 23, 2008

What is his MeFi name?

billsaysthis

Daring Book for Girls is no longer forthcoming; it's out

So it is. It's been advertised quite heavily here and came out on the 18th - I started working on this before then.

Thanks for the additional links.
posted by paduasoy at 6:33 AM on February 23, 2008

This is a great list!

Paduasoy, thanks so much for your kind words about Mother Shock. And headspace is right, The Daring Book for Girls came out last fall in the US, though the UK edition was just released this week. (And, in fact, former Mefite Jenny Diski penned the UK book's review for the Sunday Times.)

There are two others forthcoming: The Pocket Daring Book for Girls: Things to Do (May 2008) and The Pocket Daring Book for Girls: Things to Know (October 2008).
posted by mothershock at 6:40 AM on February 23, 2008

I've got two in print, "Rainbow over Crossroads" (2005) and "Digging the Immaterial" (2003). "One for the Nameless" comes out this summer.
posted by moonbird at 6:59 AM on February 23, 2008

I'm in:

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

(and holy shit, while looking for that second link, I discovered I'm a Short Story Master of the New Millenium! w00t!)

Throwing cold water on these links, it's the same piece in both collections, and you could just as easily read it online (sequel). Weirdly, I'm recording audiobook versions of both of these this weekend. These cobra things just won't die (which I guess validates the username).

I'm also working on a short comic piece that'll be in a Minneapolis anthology later this summer, but, well, that's this summer.
posted by COBRA! at 7:11 AM on February 23, 2008

I wrote half of Uglier Than a Monkey’s Armpit (still waiting on the US edition).

Also, I got the very last comment in any of the now-deleted quintuplethreads, which I consider at least as laudable an achievement.
posted by languagehat at 7:12 AM on February 23, 2008

A good number of MeFites have PhDs. If their dissertations have been published or are available over the internet, it would be cool to have a list of those too.

Yes. This. Definitely.
posted by cortex at 7:38 AM on February 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

What about dong_resin's book(s)?
posted by mathowie at 8:17 AM on February 23, 2008

Can we still count John Hodgman a Mefite?
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 8:21 AM on February 23, 2008

ONE OF WHICH HE STILL OWES ME A COPY
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:22 AM on February 23, 2008

(that would be dong resin, not Hodgman, of course. Hodgman owes me ... uh, a PC?)
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:22 AM on February 23, 2008

Well, Hodgman is classifying himself as "ghost" these days, though he did recently ask and then answer his own question.
posted by cortex at 8:26 AM on February 23, 2008

I was just popping in to mention dong_resin:

The Tinkerbell Diaries: My Life Tailing Paris Hilton

Not sure if there are others.
posted by davey_darling at 8:28 AM on February 23, 2008

OMG, a MeFite wrote one in my favorite series of books! It might take me a while to work around to American Political Slang, but the Oxford Dictionary of series rules. Good list, good research. Thanks paduasoy! (And definitely get this in the wiki.)
posted by carsonb at 8:39 AM on February 23, 2008

Like COBRA!, I'm in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans.
posted by sugarfish at 8:57 AM on February 23, 2008

people! Stop this coyness!

Okay:
Booty: Pirate Girls on the High Seas
Pregnancy To-Do's: A Book of Lists for Moms-to-Be
posted by The corpse in the library at 8:59 AM on February 23, 2008

Heh. I got the title of my own book wrong. I never liked that subtitle, anyway.
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:00 AM on February 23, 2008

A good number of MeFites have PhDs. If their dissertations have been published or are available over the internet, it would be cool to have a list of those too.

is this one?
posted by pyramid termite at 9:29 AM on February 23, 2008

gompa has written two books I'm aware of: Planet Simpson and The Geography of Hope. I admit to jealousness that I can't add my name to this list at this point.
posted by never used baby shoes at 9:36 AM on February 23, 2008

written or co-written by pb
written by ezrael
co-authored by megnut
written by fraying
co-written by mathowie (in addition to the ones already mentioned)
posted by iconomy at 9:44 AM on February 23, 2008

I am in:

Best of Strange Horizons: Year One
Underground Voices
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:50 AM on February 23, 2008

I had no idea Mr. Scalzi was here. Really loved Old Man's War.
posted by Malor at 10:12 AM on February 23, 2008

Not that anyone is going to want to read any of these books, or have the £870 required to buy them all, but I have written or co-authored chapters in the following books:

Handbook for Surgical Cross-cover

The Overactive Bladder: Evaluation and Management

Textbook of Female Urology and Urogynecology

Textbook of Reconstructive Urologic Surgery
posted by roofus at 10:34 AM on February 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

iguanapolitico (Jennifer Swofford) - Green Iguanas

Maybe not the kind of reading you have in mind.
posted by iguanapolitico at 10:34 AM on February 23, 2008

I sometimes acquire, edit, and publish other peoples books. Does that count?
posted by Toekneesan at 11:19 AM on February 23, 2008

...probably not until I learn when to use an apostrophe.
posted by Toekneesan at 11:20 AM on February 23, 2008

How To Pick Up Chicks '97 was mine. You're all welcome.

Seriously though, that's some impressive publishing. Huzzahs all around.
posted by bardic at 11:50 AM on February 23, 2008

Sigh. I never paid the vanity fee to have my dissertation published 20 years ago, although if you come to my house I'll gladly let you read it. (Or you can go to the University of Michigan's microfilm archives, if that's more convenient.)

Übergeeks, after they've finished with roofus' oeuvre (that Overactive Bladder sounds like a must-read) may wish to peruse the chapters I've co-authored in these books:

Molecular Basis of the Action of Drugs and Toxic Substances

Post-Translational Modification of Proteins by Lipids

The Biology of Parasitism

I'm staggered by the prices of these on Amazon - you'd think they were collectors' items. Hey, bring your copy when you come to my house and I'll autograph it for you - then it'll really be worth something!
posted by Quietgal at 12:05 PM on February 23, 2008

I wrote a book called The Book of Ratings which is a humor book which I wrote. It's out of print, but Amazon will be happy to sell you a copy for anything from the embarrassingly low price of $5.40 to the laughably high price of $117.55.
posted by L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg at 12:33 PM on February 23, 2008

Knitgrrl
Knitgrrl 2
Spin to Knit
Felt Frenzy (co-author)
Crochet Style
AlterNation (co-author)
The Pillow Book
How to Knit in the Woods
Just Socks (editor)
Just Gifts (editor)
Alt Fiber -- not on Amazon yet, out this fall

plus stuff in some other books...but these ones are mine!

posted by bitter-girl.com at 12:44 PM on February 23, 2008 [2 favorites]

Thanks bitter-girl.com - I've ordered your crochet book, looks good. You were one of the people I thought had published something, but couldn't find what - couldn't see a link on your blog.
posted by paduasoy at 12:50 PM on February 23, 2008

Hey, bitter-girl -- I was your tech editor for The Pillow Book! I hadn't made the connection before. Wacky.
posted by The corpse in the library at 1:06 PM on February 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

"Between Geography and & Mescaline", a book of poetry by Hanan Levin
posted by growabrain at 1:11 PM on February 23, 2008

Superfrankenstein and beaucoupkevin write comics.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:13 PM on February 23, 2008

Lelilo has published Bar Harbor Police Beat and countless articles. He also claims credit for The Illiad and Uncle Tom's Cabin but I believe he was embellishing when he made that claim.
posted by Hobgoblin at 1:27 PM on February 23, 2008

My work is on display in the second stall from the right in the men's bathroom at Marty's Bar in Birmingham, AL. It's the one in green ink.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:38 PM on February 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

I don't think you want to read my dissertation, and like Quietgal, never vanity-published mine. All I got is journal articles I've co-written, many of which are on the topic of college students and credit cards.

I also have an essay in this which has NOTHING to do with credit cards...
posted by lleachie at 2:43 PM on February 23, 2008

This is [the PDF version of] my book. It's next to impossible to get in print, though I can provide a link if anyone's interested. (Not many exist.)
posted by Mikey-San at 3:19 PM on February 23, 2008

Suddenly I find myself realizing I'm a loser.
posted by loiseau at 4:19 PM on February 23, 2008

loiseau, you're not a loser. I felt the same way when I read this thread. I mean, I highly doubt anyone's going to want to read research articles on college students and credit cards, and although I dream of writing a series of romance novels, I have had trouble writing even one. Knowing that I'm hanging out in the shadow of Susie Bright and John Scalzi, and even L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg (yes, I've read the Brunching Shuttlecocks site many times) humbles me to bits.

I always thought the first thing I would have published was my poetry -- nope. My poetry isn't as good as I originally thought it was. My first thing published was a conference proceeding article called something like "Household Units in the United States".

Know that I am in awe of all you writers. Seriously.
posted by lleachie at 4:25 PM on February 23, 2008

Wow - people here are awesomer all the time! I've added magullo's Mindstorms book to my Amazon wishlist :)
posted by jacalata at 4:29 PM on February 23, 2008

I wrote this what seems like a long time ago.
posted by ltracey at 4:48 PM on February 23, 2008

Here's a few written by rcade.
posted by iconomy at 4:56 PM on February 23, 2008

Suddenly I find myself realizing I'm a loser.
posted by loiseau

loiseau, you're not a loser. I felt the same way when I read this thread.

All three of us are losers, baby, so why don't you kill us. Besides, I work in a used bookstore so I've probably unloaded thse books from cardboard boxes, so there!
posted by jonmc at 5:02 PM on February 23, 2008

unloaded

I read that as "uploaded" and thought heh, what a funny way to describe taking books outta boxes. Too much time online, yeesh.

Yes to dissertations, please!

This thread is awesome. I'm amazed; I knew there were quite a few writers, but honestly I had no idea of the scope. Thanks for this catalogue.
posted by Miko at 6:03 PM on February 23, 2008

I've edited the following:

Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930 (mostly as a researcher)

Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes

Lee Mullican: An Abundant Harvest of Sun

Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement

Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images

The Bronzes of Rodin (English ed.)

Donald Blumberg

Forthcoming: Art of the Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures, 1945-89 (sorry, no link yet)
posted by scody at 6:49 PM on February 23, 2008

robhuddles

XML: Your visual blueprint for building expert websites with XML, CSS, XHTML, and XSLT (Visual Blueprint)
posted by geekyguy at 7:34 PM on February 23, 2008

I've got chapters in a bunch of shit too, but I can't be bothered to list them. I can barely remember them, in fact.

The last two were probably:

The Immaculate Injection -- in The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories
The Great Mersey Experiment -- in Heroin Addiction and the British System: Understanding the Problem: Policy and the British System, Vol. 1, Strang. J and Gossop. M. (Eds)
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:53 PM on February 23, 2008

Nice! Mrs. The Bellman's book just came out last week and I think it's totally cool to see it on the shelves:

Something New: Wedding Etiquette for Rule Breakers, Traditionalists, and Everyone in Between
posted by The Bellman at 8:32 PM on February 23, 2008

I've reconciled myself to the fact that I'll never write great literature, but with all you writerly types around, maybe I'll be a character in some.
posted by jonmc at 8:38 PM on February 23, 2008

I may not be a loser, but I suuuuure am lazy!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:20 PM on February 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

peacay's BibliOdyssey.
posted by nickyskye at 9:33 PM on February 23, 2008

And don't forget my mom's book ON EDGE! ...with a forthcoming novel: In the Wind.

_{Will Mize is a mefite!? Coooool!}
posted by lester the unlikely at 10:57 PM on February 23, 2008

This is why I lurk. Thank you all.
posted by metasav at 12:00 AM on February 24, 2008

lleachie, are you still reading this? Cause I actually kinda wanna read about college students and credit cards...
posted by whatzit at 1:57 AM on February 24, 2008

Yes, I am...I could email you a summary (with reference list) of the findings from several articles I co-wrote.
posted by lleachie at 4:35 AM on February 24, 2008

Hey! I just heard soulbarn the other day on Fresh Air.
posted by horsemuth at 5:38 AM on February 24, 2008

I haven't written any books, but I have edited a metric shitload of them.
posted by theredpen at 5:59 AM on February 24, 2008

Wow. I never realized there were so many MeFi authors.

I am both humbled and condemned for my own laziness. Really must start working on my blog and get back to the novel I'm writing again.
posted by orange swan at 6:32 AM on February 24, 2008

I've edited a number of books, but I doubt anyone would be interested in a guide to the civil court costs in Ontario or on mediating legal disputes.
posted by orange swan at 6:33 AM on February 24, 2008

Ecclesiastes 12:9-12,
In addition to being a wise man, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, searched out and arranged many proverbs. The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly. The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd. But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.
posted by Toekneesan at 6:57 AM on February 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Oh, well, if we're talking about editing, I've worked on:

The Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations

Safire's Political Dictionary

Brave New Words

among others.

And jonmc, you've got a great music book in you. Use that rock-list blog of yours as bait to attract an agent and get to work.
posted by languagehat at 8:30 AM on February 24, 2008

And jonmc, you've got a great music book in you. Use that rock-list blog of yours as bait to attract an agent and get to work.

Actually, I've come to the long-overdue conclusion that I'm a career retail worker who likes to fuck around on the internet and that there's really nothing wrong with that, and at the end of the day, I don't really want to scale the heights or whatever. The whole proposition makes me nervous, frankly. It's much more comfortable here in the land of inconsequentiality.
posted by jonmc at 8:37 AM on February 24, 2008

I've got a chapter about Estonia in:

Rough Guide Women Travel.

It's just a tiny wee chapter, but I'd be honoured to reach up and add it to the MeFi bookshelf alongside such illustrious company.
posted by penguin pie at 11:54 AM on February 24, 2008

Dayum. You folks rock.
posted by NortonDC at 12:34 PM on February 24, 2008

Also, asavage has a ~~bucket~~book.
posted by NortonDC at 12:35 PM on February 24, 2008

I'd just like to say that if you haven't written a book before, do it once before you don't have the steam. It will change your life.
posted by Mikey-San at 1:07 PM on February 24, 2008

todbot has a book on roomba hacking.
posted by johnjoe at 2:02 PM on February 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'd just like to say that if you haven't written a book before, do it once before you don't have the steam. It will change your life.

Yes. It will mean you have written a book.
posted by jonmc at 2:18 PM on February 24, 2008 [3 favorites]

I've linked this thread on the wiki.
posted by Pronoiac at 3:19 PM on February 24, 2008

Hey--which one of you trashed my book on Amazon?!
posted by LarryC at 4:38 PM on February 24, 2008

What makes you think it was one of us?!
posted by grouse at 4:45 PM on February 24, 2008

This is the comment where I consider citing to my law review note, but exercise better judgment.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 4:50 PM on February 24, 2008

BAM! though an incomplete bam.
posted by Pronoiac at 6:28 PM on February 24, 2008

Perhaps those who are in the sciences wouldn't get too many readers.

Heh. Yeah, because nobody actually cares about understanding the universe or anything. ;)

I'd be interested if any scientists felt like putting links to pdf's of their dissertations in this thread, or links to whatever relevant online database (arxiv, spires, etc.) tracks their preprints/publications.
posted by johnjoe at 7:54 PM on February 24, 2008

BitterOldPunk, I gotta say rhyming "load" and "commode" was a touch of genius in your work.
posted by maxwelton at 8:40 PM on February 24, 2008

Man, you people are smart. I must get back to finishing my Grandfather's biography. But does it really count if you just finish what someone else started? I don't think so.
posted by dg at 11:56 PM on February 24, 2008

Thanks for including me, and I'm honored to be in such company.

Someday I'll write one that isn't in the Computers section.
posted by mmoncur at 5:31 AM on February 25, 2008

Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm.
by David Bohm, Donald Factor (Editor)
posted by adamvasco at 7:14 AM on February 25, 2008

I'm thrilled to have such a comprehensive resource as this:

*gets out hobbling block*

OK, who wants me to be their #1 fan?
posted by quin at 8:17 AM on February 25, 2008 [1 favorite]

I stumbled upon the usability book mathowie wrote a chapter for, and found it pretty interesting. It's a little dated now, and for a book on usability I thought some of the (book) design choices were questionable but overall it was good.
posted by heeeraldo at 10:53 AM on February 25, 2008

I should mention I stumbled upon it in the Vancouver public library, should any local MeFites want to take a gander at it.
posted by heeeraldo at 10:54 AM on February 25, 2008

paduasoy: Thanks bitter-girl.com - I've ordered your crochet book, looks good. You were one of the people I thought had published something, but couldn't find what - couldn't see a link on your blog.

Uh huh, it's intentional, alas. As I explained once upon a time in another thread, my publisher lost a big, big sale of my first book to some wacky religiously-inspired book club and pitched a fit about links between my personal and knitting sites (and my former online shop, where, horror of horrors, we were selling "The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own" panties). Hence link-free. BUT, if you would like to fiber yourself into a coma, go to [the first book's title] -dot-com and get stitchy with it.

The corpse in the library: Hey, bitter-girl -- I was your tech editor for The Pillow Book! I hadn't made the connection before. Wacky.

And a FINE, FINE tech editor she is! Without corpses in libraries and their kin, books would suck a whole lot more. Yay!
posted by bitter-girl.com at 12:08 PM on February 25, 2008

I have also had the experience of publishing a book--many moons ago. I used a psuedonym because I was working for a different publisher at the time, and it seemed like a good idea. So I submit An Old Fashioned ABC to the list-available used from .30 to a whopping $74.95! There was also the very forgettable Old Fashioned 123--but it is quite rightly out of print and unavailable.
posted by agatha_magatha at 1:20 PM on February 25, 2008

Gamers... in the Library?!: The Why, What and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages

It was supposed to be called Just Like Storytime, only Louder and Smellier.
posted by ulotrichous at 3:58 PM on February 25, 2008

maxwelton: thanks! It's intended to convey a sense of man's inhumanity to man.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 4:54 PM on February 25, 2008

Awesome, Jessamyn has a book about Virtual Reference! Must see if it's in my large stack of books (anyone in the UC system trying to do research on virtual reference, please hit me up, as I've got a large percentage of them right now).

Also, User-Centered Design is a mandatory textbook for some of the classes this quarter. Very interesting book.
posted by librarylis at 6:50 PM on February 25, 2008

wrote one, The Book of Demons, Victoria Hyatt
illustrated another, The Book of Charms, Victoria Hayatt (editor misspelled my nom de plume)
posted by nickyskye at 10:07 PM on February 28, 2008

May I post a book about photography in this thread? I just published "Images of Wilderness" on Blurb. It can be found here
posted by seawallrunner at 4:37 PM on March 16, 2008

I gots me a few:
Boss Tweed's Dinosaurs
Detonator
Blood Relations
Blind Ambitions
The Beginnings of Forever

Plus some others coming.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 12:53 PM on March 20, 2008

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