I just read an excellent New York Times review of Leanne
Shaptons’s new book Swimming Studies–

“The talented illustrator Leanne Shapton, in her pointillistic and quietly profound new memoir, Swimming Studies…writes as confidently as she draws, and memorably conjures swimming’s intense, primordial and isolating pleasures….Shapton’s prose frequently has the density of poetry….[she] is so smart and so likable that you will pass her book along to the swimmers in your life.”