Reluctant will undergo an overhaul by the end of the year. If you have any features you’d like to see, please let me know in the comments and I will work to accommodate your request.
Power to the People
– November 27, 2006Posted in: Uncategorized
Reluctant will undergo an overhaul by the end of the year. If you have any features you’d like to see, please let me know in the comments and I will work to accommodate your request.
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway: Harkaway's latest novel greatly improves on his previous book, The Gone-Away World, which I'm already on record as praising. Angelmaker adopts genre elements without ever feeling like a genre book, and it leads me to believe that Harkaway is well on his way to a narrative grace close to China MiƩville's. Yet inexplicably this very fun book, which includes an eightysomething badass named Edie Banister, a mysterious mechanical object that may destroy the world, farcical scenarios involving lawyers and the police, and some unexpectedly moving moments about fatherhood, doesn't appear to be getting much attention in American newspapers. Nothing from the snobs at The New York Times Book Review, nothing from The Washington Post. And since I can't get Harkaway on Bat Segundo, I hope this Jump Up and Down mention gets you hopping as well.
The Age of Insight by Eric Kandel: Unless you're really pressed for time, forget Jonah Lehrer. If you want to understand creativity and its relationship to neuroscience, then the bowtie-wearing Nobel laureate is your man. In addition to being a physically beautiful book (you will drool over many of the paintings), there are helpful overviews on optical illusions, science, biographical backgrounds, and many vital figures from the Vienna Secession. Kandel's enthusiasm (and his call for greater unity between the humanities and science) is contagious. All Content Copyright Their Respective Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Freshly baked cookies each month to the blog’s readers would be nice. But, barring that, I’m fine with more of the same.
I’d like a Happy Ending.