Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:17 AM
Blawg Book Highlighter #2: Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel
Blog is a fusion of web and log.
And that of course makes a blawg a fusion on top of a fusion, or a melding of blog and law.
Likewise, a blook is mashing of blog and book. Writer Cheryl Hagedorn gives us a full definition on her Blooking Central blog here: http://blooking.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-blook.html
Put all of that together and you have the makings of Anonymous Lawyer, a blawg that became a blook.
In his debut based on his blog of the title, recent Harvard Law graduate Jeremy Blachman's Anonymous Lawyer is a fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city.
From Publisher's Weekly, which calls Anonymous Lawyer "side-achingly funny":
"Anonymous Lawyer is an 18-year man whose compulsion to blog is almost as strong as his desire for the firm's chairmanship. When he's not facing off with his nemesis, The Jerk, in the race for the chair, he takes solace in degrading his summer interns and hapless associates for his quickly developing cult of readers (who e-mail with guesses at his identity). The dirt Anonymous Lawyer dishes is crude, and grounded in his own snobbery and narcissism: his female victims include The One Who's Never Getting Married, The One Who Missed Her Kid's Funeral and The Bombshell (at the annual office charity auction, a date with her went to Lives With His Mom for $6,000)."
For a taste of Blachman's blook, check out his blawg at Anonymous Lawyer
Blachman's previous blawg where he wrote all about law school is here: Jeremy's Weblog
And his current weblog is here: Jeremy Blachman's Weblog: 2007
If all of that isn't enough to satisfy your appetite, try munching on this interview with Blachman at Chicago Writes -- Interview with Jeremy Blachman
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Randy Richardson is an author, humorist, former journalist, and a lawyer. His fiction debut, Lost in the Ivy, a murder mystery set against the backdrop of Chicago's storied Wrigley Field, won the Writers Marketing Association's “Fresh Voices” Book Award and the Illinois Woman's Press Association's Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest. He writes the Dad Libs column for SanityCentral.com and is a frequent contributor to Chicago Parent magazine. In his day job, he is an attorney for the Social Security Administration’s disability appeals branch. At night and during lunch breaks, he serves as president of the Chicago Writers Association (chicagowrites.org) and works on his second novel while a 4-year-old tugs on his legs. Visit his website at www.lostintheivy.com.
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