This link is all over the lit blogs, but I thought I'd share a little story first...

Back when Bookblogger was an intern at a hip little magazine, an editor announced to us that George Plimpton, editor-in-chief of The Paris Review, had died. Cool kids that we were, we couldn't quite hear the editor in our open loft office space over the sound of our iTunes blasting. One editorial assistant said, "George Clinton died? Man, that's too bad."

Another editorial assistant straggled in from lunch, a greasy paper bag in hand. "Did you guys hear? George Plimpton died!"

"George Plimpton died? Oh..." the first assistant said. "Hey, what a coincidence...George Clinton died!"

And here, my friends, is The Plimpton Project, an organization collecting funds toward creating a statue of Plimpton for Central Park. Enjoy.