World Hum Writers in the World

A number of writers we’ve been delighted to feature on World Hum recently have new articles and books worth noting. Frank Bures, whose last piece for the site was Test Day, has been particularly prolific. Among other projects, he interviewed “Colossus” author Niall Ferguson for The Atlantic Online, compiled a fascinating list of oddball comments on Yahoo! News about the University of Wisconsin’s laser cheese slicer for McSweeney’s, and reviewed Edwidge Danticat’s new novel, “The Dew Breaker,” for The Capital Times. Rolf Potts, who recently contributed Lost in Translation, wrote about a curiously nameless Peruvian desert for the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. And Bill Belleville, who wrote A Million Years of Memory, as well as a forthcoming story, recently published a new book, Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes and Golden Sharks: Travels of a Water-Bound Adventurer. He’ll be signing the book at Book Mark in Neptune Beach, Florida tonight at 7 p.m.

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