Read The Prize to Decode Global Energy Markets
If you are trying to understand what is happening in global energy markets I highly recommend “The prize” by @DanielYergin Literally one of my top ten books ever.
Celebrating Gaming History in “Video Games in 100 Objects”
Great to see this coffee table book, edited by Joe Funk, with my contributions and those from other writers, out in the wild. Video Games in 100 objects. Lots of nostalgia here. https://t.co/DaXFf4xXMA
Half-Real Chinese Edition Explores Game Reality vs Fiction
Happy to share that my book Half-Real is out in complex Chinese, titled "電玩的本質 - 遊走於真實規則與虛構世界的藝術"! https://t.co/Diigq9QXKt
Socrates Returns: Modern Campus Dialogues on Life’s Fundamentals
Excellent little book that imagines Socrates having conversations in a modern university on life's basic tenets and musings. https://t.co/AgK4gXrGgr
King's Daily IQ Flip Determines Whether He Rules or Plays
In the Stormlight Archives, there is a character (a king) who magically wakes up each day with a random intelligence level. His caretakers test him in the morning to determine whether he’s capable of leading his country that day or is...
Survival Lessons From the Edge: Preorder My New Book
Today is World Book Day, a reminder that ideas matter and that books still shape how we understand the world. My next book, "Twenty Times I Almost Died: Life Lessons from the Edge of Survival," comes out this August. It...
Canada’s Current Path Fails to Ensure World‑class Prosperity
Self recommending must-read for Canadians. “The path Canada is on, economically and culturally, is no longer sufficient to make us a flourishing world class nation.”
Three Brilliant Reads Across Generations and Genres
Are You There God..., by @JudyBlume Diary of @WimpyKid, by Jeff Kinney Trade Wars by @SoumayaKeynes (Brilliant) https://t.co/VbWlPXAgAi
NYT Repeats 1970s Liberal Hypocrisy for Black Panthers
In 1970, Tom Wolfe wrote a book called "Radical Chic and Mau Mau-ing The Flack Catchers" mocking rich white liberals for throwing parties for the Black Panthers. 56 years later, the NYT looks just as foolish.
Reading “Kin” In Bali Sparks Deep Maternal Longing
I’m in Bali, on a bus full of women going back to our hotel. I just finished reading @tayari’s book “Kin.” It was magnificent. I cannot stop crying. I wish I could get a hug from my mother…
Writing Faces Extinction Amid AI's Cognitive Illusion
✏️ Is writing dying a slow death at the binary hands of LLMs? 🤖 The Brilliant Illusion of AI Cognitive Theater https://t.co/lzb2eQG0Gy
The Conversation Demands Evidence Links; Awaiting Book Tour Dates
The Conversation (TB Times picked it up through syndication) has very strict guidelines for what they will publish. Links to evidence are required, and they're all in the article. This book tour sounds cool though; hope someone sends me the...
A24 to Adapt Nick Brucker’s White Smoke with Cumberbatch
EXCLU: Even though the book doesn’t drop till 2027, A24 has optioned rights for Nick Brucker’s next novel WHITE SMOKE with plans to adapt into a TV series with Benedict Cumberbatch attached to star and produce https://t.co/3e8OOt4Dx4
Postman’s Shift: From Tech Embrace to Cultural Counterbalance
Early in his career, Neil Postman wrote a book about how educators needed to get with the times and incorporate technology into the classroom. Then later he totally changed his mind and realized that education needed to provide a thermostatic counterbalance...
Nature's Poetry Reveals Our Shared Biological Wonder
Poetic ecology and the biology of wonder – superb read for anyone who loves nature and its resonance with our human nature https://t.co/NvwUa2KpMS #EarthDay
Author to Discuss New Book at Evanston Event
Looking forward to discussing my new book tomorrow night at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston, IL with the eternally-wise @jonathaneig. If you're anywhere on Chicago's North Side or in the northern suburbs, we should be reasonably easy to get to!...
Memoir Healing Reveals Two Hidden Narrative Challenges
Some memoirists have undergone awful experiences, then they heal and sometimes achieve incredible things. That healing journey is remarkable, yet if you're writing a memoir about it, you'll encounter two problems in trying to create a narrative from it. @lisacooperellison discusses:...
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Sparked Earth Day's Origin
#EarthDay was largely inspired by Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." Here is the bittersweet story behind how and why she wrote it: https://t.co/DRwh8xuzi8
A Mother's Raw Journey Through Unthinkable Grief
An excerpt from the forthcoming "Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable" by @DCrittenden1 Available next month from @infinitebooks https://t.co/NhwdLlzFOe
Billionaires Drive Biotech's Race for Cancer Blockbusters
Just read "For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug" a good book about developing of a pair of cancer drugs. Great work by @nathanvardi https://t.co/rrTOe6GqIB
Submitting Reviews Triggers Flood of Netgalley Approvals
Does anyone else feel like they get a wave of approvals when they submit a review on Netgalley? Last time I submitted 4 reviews in on night, I got NINE approvals over the next couple of days. 🫣 So, I just...
Spot the Universal Pattern Once You Start Noticing
The pattern is everywhere, once you know to look for it. From my new book Incorruptible — pre-order: https://t.co/gowvHYBeeQ https://t.co/Rxhr5RxWC1
Give Graduates Signed Copies of My New Book
Need a great grad gift? Signed copies of my new book are available at the famous Kepler's in Menlo Park, CA. https://t.co/yQ4pNl0vHX
Get a Signed Book for Austin Graduates at Book People
If you live in Austin and would like a signed copy of my book as a graduation gift, they have them at Book People. Can also be purchased online... 🤘🙏🤘🙏 https://t.co/aVaPUIIYCT
Seeking Cookbooks Rich in History and Storytelling
Doing a little research for a new project… friends, what are some of your favorite cookbooks that are heavy on the history and storytelling? IE: The Mosquito Supper Club or California Soul.
Distribution Shortages Undermine Indie Authors' Earnings
No. It's happening again. The Bewitching is out in paperback today in the USA & my friend went to a large bookstore and they didn't have it in stock because they only ordered two copies and they're gone. This stocking/distribution...
Poetry Shows How Books Rescue Troubled Children
"(You never know what troubled little girl needs a book)" Nikki Giovanni's wonderful poems celebrating libraries and librarians https://t.co/p2NFx6czcd
Treat Your Book Like a Product to Sell
The authors who sell the most understand this: writing is art, but publishing is business. If you want to reach more readers or score a big publishing deal, it helps to start thinking of your book like a product you're selling...
He Loved Them so Much He Blurbed Multiple Times
And they are good (he said, having blurbed at least a couple because he enjoyed them that much)!
BookCon Highlights Publishing's Author‑Indie Consumer Shift
This year's BookCon definitely underlines one of the greatest transformations in book publishing in the last 10 years. It is more author-driven, indie-driven, and consumer-driven than ever before. BookCon can succeed and grow; the industry-facing BookExpo remains as dead as...
Sharing New Divergent AU Book, Even Without Prior Reading
Me, explaining to my husband there will be a new Divergent AU book Me: did you read those books? Him: no… Him: do I need to have read them for this announcement to make sense? Me: no…LOOOONG PAUSE (because maybe, but I’m gonna tell...
Exploring Prediction: Interview on Carissa Veliz’s Prophecy
I'm the interviewer today for Carissa Veliz's absolutely fascinating book about prediction -- "prophecy" -- at the 92NY: https://t.co/zvDcxfeszI
Staggering, Beautiful Portrait of Grief and Lost Daughter
My colleague Dylan says it perfectly—@DCrittenden1’s book is a staggering portrayal of grief, but also a beautiful portrayal of the daughter she lost. Proud that @infinitebooks is publishing it.
Our Bodies Accumulate DNA Replication Errors over a Lifetime
Your DNA replicates a lot between the time you're a fertilized egg and the 30T or so (human) cells in your adult body; fidelity is high but not perfect. In today's @WSJ I review a new book taking a deep...
Copying Classics Reveals Your Unique Writing Voice
Hunter S. Thompson copied The Great Gatsby by hand "to see what it felt like to write a great American novel." And his own style was completely different. Just shows how useful it can be to study and try other styles, in...
Green Book Ends Meetings, Instability Still Looms
nerd patrol: @TobiasAdrian1 just kills it with the green book on stability. the meetings are over. our instability is not. https://t.co/6pOoSwmvpB cover-to-cover. @KGeorgieva
Write Disability Characters Carefully; Understand Their Daily Reality
Writing a main character with serious physical challenges—ones you do not have—carries great risk because their daily experience is so different from your own. That can be hard to keep up for 350 pages, let alone a series. Here are three...
Fiction Reveals Universal Truths Better Than History
“Aristotle calls fiction more philosophical than history, because it allows you to see the universals.” ~@costofglory
From Homeless to Stanford Lawyer: My Story Simplified
I just made it a heck of a lot easier for people to read my serialized memoir, "From There to Here: A Story of Survival" My journey from homeless and on my own at age 11 to Stanford lawyer, law...
Write Through the Hate; Edit Later
I have crossed over the 60k threshold for book 36. 1800 words written today. Did I wanna show up? Nope. Did I write mostly dialogue? Yep. Did I hate everything I wrote? Also yes. Do I understand this happens during...
Timeless Voices: From Tocqueville to Conrad
Alexis de Tocqueville, W. Somerset Maugham, Joseph Conrad, and Ernst Jünger to name a few
Future Jobs May Shock Descendants Like Past Oddities
The book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber was wrong in substance but right in gestalt. Many jobs of the past would horrify us today -- chimneysweep?? Many jobs of today will horrify our descendents. We actually made people DO that?...
Usborne Books: Kids' Must-Have Collectible Favorites
Big up Usborne Books, we swear by these things. At this point, we are basically Pokémon hunters, and we gotta catch em all. My kids love them and they are very
Assassination Books Reveal Chilling Manhunts and Conspiracies
Here are the most interesting assassination books... When I read, I go down rabbit holes. I'm sick...but interesting: Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer John Wilkes Booth killed Abe Lincoln and was loose for 12 days. Booth was a famous actor. Think...
New Must-Read Cookbooks to Add to Your Shelf
From my bookshelf to yours: several books to discover this month 📖 "Mindful Cooking" - Coming out October 6! Pre-order link in bio "Table 4 at The River Cafe" by Ruthie Rogers "The Secret History of French Cooking" by @lukebarr "Ohana Style" by...
Pause Before You Fire: Opportunity Disguised as Scam
It finally happened. I almost sent a wildly mean reply to a publishing scammer, only to discover it was a real, major opportunity before hitting send. 😬
Shallow POV Keeps Readers From Connecting With Your Story
Three of my subscribers sent me their manuscripts for critique… and they ALL make the same mistake: Shallow POV. It's an issue I see in 50% of the manuscripts I edit, and if your readers keep saying they "just aren't connecting" with...
EdTech Book Picks to Inspire Your Classroom
📚 Looking for your next education read? For World Book Day this week, explore my EdTech books filled with tools, strategies, and ideas to spark inspiration for your classroom or PD this year. Browse the list 👇 https://t.co/i1TQo4Gcz6 #EdTech #EdChat
Today's Book Prices Match Past Costs After Inflation
A brand new book today costs $28-$35. That's too expensive, or is it... A new copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird" went for $4 when it was first published. A new copy of "The Fellowship of the Ring" was $5 when it...
Comprehensive New Book Explores Somatic Mutation
Just out - my latest @WSJBooks review - a new book offering comprehensive consideration of somatic mutation -> https://t.co/ptkWfPKemN @zakkohane