Just a quick heads up that John Scalzi, whose Whatever blog I should have blogrolled long ago* (it’s up there now), has posted an essay of mine in his “Big Idea” feature about the back story of how I came to write Newton and the Counterfeiter. The Big Idea feature is (a) a very canny [...]
Archive for June 2009
For a Good Time In Cambridge: Newton and the Counterfeiter/Harvard Books Edition
June 8, 2009Just another heads’ up that I’ll be talking Newton (that is, Newton and the Counterfeiter) at the Harvard Book Store tonight, Monday, June 8, at 7 p.m. Here’s the press release. The street location is 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge — about a two minute walk east (i.e. towards Boston) from the exit of the Harvard Square [...]
Sunday Links
June 7, 2009Running late — deadlines on three (3!) pieces by tomorrow at eleven at the latest. So far I have one in draft, one that I will conjure out of another piece of writing on the same subject for a different purpose, expanding by 60% (all good stuff, no groats for fillers) and a third that [...]
Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 7.1: Rewards and Bribes
June 5, 2009This is kind of an interstitial post, emerging from a conversation I had with Carl Zimmer a few weeks ago. Carl had come up from his undisclosed secure location near New Haven (secure because no one wants to go to New Haven? snarks this denizen of 02139) to speak to my students in the MIT [...]
Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 7.0: Pub Day!
June 4, 2009So, Newton and the Counterfeiter is officially published as of today. It has, to be sure, been shipping from Amazon for a couple of weeks now, and has been in at least some brick-and-mortar stores for most of that time as well, but the significance of the date is (a) that in theory at least, [...]
Some Newton Book Events: Science Friday/Harvard Bookstore Edition
June 3, 2009[Update w. day/date for the Harvard Bookstore talk added below...and here: it's Monday, June 8 at 7 p.m.] This is the first of a couple of heads up for these events in support of my new book (have I mentioned I’ve got a book coming out?) Newton and the Counterfeiter. I’ll be chatting with longtime [...]
Dog Bites Man Dept: Jonah Goldberg — Dumbest Man Alive?
June 3, 2009Ex Isaac Chotiner via John Cole I learn that the black hole of stupid formed when Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg coalesced in a distortion of spacetime so strongly warped that not one particle of authentic fact could escape. Of particular note, this quote by Goldberg: GOLDBERG: …I’m not calling Barack Obama a Hitler and I’m [...]
Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 6.0: Some Notes on Writing the Damn Thing…
June 2, 2009[Previous posts in this series here, here, here, here, and here.] I’m struggling amidst a press of family events this weekend (happy ones — one nephew getting Bar Mitzvah-ed in Berkeley CA on the same day that one niece gets married in the Boston area; my wife and I divide and conquer). But for all [...]
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