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Book critic and New York Times Magazine critic at large Sam Anderson has inked a book deal with Random House’s Crown Publishing Group to expand upon his cover story for the magazine, “A Basketball Fairy Tale in Middle America.”

The book will focus on Oklahoma City’s recovery and its NBA basketball team. William Morris Endeavor agent Jay Mandel negotiated the deal with Crown senior editor Zachary Wagman.  The book expanding upon his cover story. You can follow Anderson on Twitter, where he shares his favorite sentence every day. Here’s more from the release:

Anderson will report on the amazing revitalization that has occurred over the course of the last 20 years, starting with Oklahoma City’s adoption of the MAPS program; he’ll show how the city’s colorful leaders—its mayor, police chief, and various business leaders—have built up an unassuming city into a thriving urban center, full of artists, musicians, and, of course, sports fans. Anderson will track the dramatic story of how a consortium of business leaders bought the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics, brought it to Oklahoma City, and renamed the team the Thunder. The team—led by Sam Presti, its young GM as well as All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook—has transformed itself from a group of scrappy underdogs into arguably the best team in basketball in less than five years.

:Anderson will report on the amazing revitalization that has occurred over the course of the last 20 years, starting with Oklahoma City’s adoption of the MAPS program; he’ll show how the city’s colorful leaders—its mayor, police chief, and various business leaders—have built up an unassuming city into a thriving urban center, full of artists, musicians, and, of course, sports fans. Anderson will track the dramatic story of how a consortium of business leaders bought the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics, brought it to Oklahoma City, and renamed the team the Thunder. The team—led by Sam Presti, its young GM as well as All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook—has transformed itself from a group of scrappy underdogs into arguably the best team in basketball in less than five yearto write portrait of Oklahoma City, focusing on its improbable history, colorful people, unique city government, and dazzling NBA basketball team, the Thunder, that has energized and charmed the city. The book will be published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the at Random House, Inc.

Anderson will bring the same intelligence, wit, insight, and sense of humor to this book that he has brought to his various stories at The New York Times Magazine, and before that, to New York Magazine, where he was the book critic, and Slate, to which he was a regular contributor. His journalism and essays have won numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Best Magazine Article from the Society of Professional Journalists, LSU’s John Hazard Award for Literary Nonfiction, and Best Columnist from the Oregon Newspapers Publishers’ Association

Tentatively titled OKC, Anderson’s first book will expand on the popular cover story he wrote for The New York Times Magazine, and will be a lively and introspective look into this unique city. New York Times Magazine critic at large Sam Anderson will pen an in-depth portrait of Oklahoma City, focusing on its improbable history, colorful people, unique city government, and dazzling NBA basketball team, the Thunder, that has energized and charmed the city. The book will be published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House, Inc.

Anderson will bring the same intelligence, wit, insight, and sense of humor to this book that he has brought to his various stories at The New York Times Magazine, and before that, to New York Magazine, where he was the book critic, and Slate, to which he was a regular contributor. His journalism and essays have won numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Best Magazine Article from the Society of Professional Journalists, LSU’s John Hazard Award for Literary Nonfiction, and Best Columnist from the Oregon Newspapers Publishers’ Association.

Tentatively titled OKC, Anderson’s first book will expand on the popular cover story he wrote for The New York Times Magazine, and will be a lively and introspective look into this unique city. Anderson will report on the amazing revitalization that has occurred over the course of the last 20 years, starting with Oklahoma City’s adoption of the MAPS program; he’ll show how the city’s colorful leaders—its mayor, police chief, and various business leaders—have built up an unassuming city into a thriving urban center, full of artists, musicians, and, of course, sports fans. Anderson will track the dramatic story of how a consortium of business leaders bought the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics, brought it to Oklahoma City, and renamed the team the Thunder. The team—led by Sam Presti, its young GM as well as All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook—has transformed itself from a group of scrappy underdogs into arguably the best team in basketball in less than five years.

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Seven editors and three agents from the U.S. and Canada have won fellowships to attend this year’s Jerusalem International Book Fair.

Selected as Zev Birger Jerusalem International Book Fair Fellows, the will attend special programs and seminars at the 26th biennial event, held from February 10 through 15 this year.

The complete list of fellows follows below…

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Lost founder J. J. Abrams and Alive in Necropolis novelist Doug Dorst will team up for a new novel at Little, Brown and Company’s Mulholland Books imprint. Publication is set for 2012.

According to the release, Abrams created the idea and Dorst (pictured, via) will write the book. John Schoenfelder will edit and Jay Mandel of WME negotiated the deal.

Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch had this statement: “Doug and J.J.’s story will explode the bonds of the novel in ways no book has ever done … It is a privilege to work with this wildly creative team of writers and thinkers.”

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