Are there any plans to compile Happiness into a book like The Principles of Uncertainty?
Yeah, it’s going to be a book with the same publisher, Penguin Press; it’ll probably come out in 2010 or 2011. So when you adapt a blog into a book, do you make additional edits or does it go straight to the page as is? There may be a few teeny, little edits. What I usually like to do is to add things, to add more information, either in the text or in the back — more imagery or more off-shoots of things that I didn’t have room for in the pieces, more paintings, more photography, odd bits of ephemera. Switching gears a little bit, the way I found out about your work was through The Elements of Style (Illustrated). I was wondering where that idea came from? That was a beautiful moment one summer day when I was at a yard sale in Cape Cod and I picked up a copy of The Elements of Style. I started reading it and said, “There’s no way I could not illustrate this book. It’s funny, crazy, and cinematic, and every example was beautifully written. There was also a tremendous amount of humor and
