New York Times article on sabbaticals
This sign sums up my sabbatical I’m quoted in an article about “Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals” in today’s New York Times. It’s a good piece, if I do say so
SHORTER is off to the presses
This afternoon I sent back the final edits to SHORTER (US | UK). At this point, the book has been copyedited and styled, my editor has had her
A note about the blog
This site is built atop a blog I started in 2002. Those 5000+ posts have moved through Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad, and a couple different iterations of WordPress.
Jamie Oliver and the economics of publishing
This little factoid in the New York Times profile of Jamie Oliver stood out for me: Books, however, remain the engine of the Oliver machine: He has sold
Dog is my coauthor
A typical early morning writing. Davis gets up on the couch, insists on being petted, and eventually settles down and goes back to sleep. It's very nice, even
The next phase of writing
This weekend I printed out a draft of the next book. It's just under 50,000 words, out of about 70,000. I've still got plenty to write, but I'm
A quick update, and more news soon
I realize I've posted very little in the last few weeks (though I've posted lots of labrador pictures), because I've been doing a lot on the next book.
Dogs with jobs
When I was on my travels, I met several dogs who were helping people I interviewed. There was this dog doing graphic design: Then there was this very
Using science in history: the case of spontaneous thinking
Within the discipline of history, the effort to use theories from the human and natural sciences-- e.g., psychology, psychoanalysis, biology, and other fields-- to explain historical change is
Book sales and “the slow death of the literary novel”
The New Statesman has a piece on "The slow death of the literary novel," and how lower advances and royalties are making it harder for authors to make a