Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction
The Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction is out! You can order your copies from Locus Publishing, my Taiwanese publisher. There's also this cool promotional video: Taiwan's Commonwealth
Analog August and The End of Absence
Michael Harris’ The End of Absence: Reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection come out this week, and to mark its publication, Penguin is doing something
Amazon, Hachette, and my book
Jeremy Greenfield has a good piece in The Atlantic about how the fight between Amazon and Hachette (the publishing conglomerate that owns Little, Brown, which published The Distraction
Two Guardian pieces on the philosophy of walking
I’ve long been interested in walking as an intellectual, and cognitively stimulating, activity. So it was cool to find two essays in the Guardian about walking and thinking.
“We can think THROUGH exercise:” Damon Young’s new “How to Think About Exercise”
Damon Young has a new book in the School of Life series, How to Think About Exercise. He says a bit about it on the Australian bookstore blog
The bookstore is “the body to my Internet mind”
In a recent Random House blog essay, writer and bookseller Fiona Ducan argues that "we read more, and in more ways, than ever, and this is thanks to
Bookstore appearance: Kepler’s Books, August 27 at 7:30 p.m.
I'm happy to announce that the first reading from THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION will take place at Kepler's Books on Tuesday, August 27 at 7:30 p.m. I'm fortunate to
Advance online preview of THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION
Of course there's going to be an electronic version of The Distraction Addiction, and it'll make its way into the great maw of Google Books at some point;
Kirkus Reviews talks about “The Distraction Addiction” in its latest issue
For decades Kirkus Reviews has been one of the more important venues for book reviews, and one of the more feared. As the New York Times reported in
Damon Young on cyborgs and freedom
While reading Damon Young's 2008 book Distraction-- which I highly recommend-- I came across this nice bit about technology, freedom, and responsibility. He first makes the case that