“Since scientific knowledge is still growing by a factor of ten every 50 years, it should not be surprising that lots of facts people learned in school and universities have been overturned and are now out of date,” writes Ronald Bailey in his review of Samuel Arbesman’s The Half-life of Facts.
You Call Those Facts? These Are Facts.
Tuesday New Release Day: Elton; French; Michell; Merwin
Out this week: Time and Time Again by Ben Elton; According to Yes by Dawn French; The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell; and What Is a Garden? by W.S. Merwin.
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First Murakami Collection in Almost A Decade
Haruki Murakami will publish his first short story collection in nine years this spring. Men Without Women will feature five previously published stories (including the controversial "Drive My Car") and one new story. The book comes out in Japan in April, but there is no word on when we'll see an English translation.
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Kafka’s Hidden Manuscripts
The Independent reports on the unpublished works found within Kafka’s safety deposit boxes, and why the hidden manuscripts have long been tied up in Kafkaesque red tape. (via AuthorScoop)
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Writing About Home in Pittsburgh
A nice complement to Edan's essay today about writing in Los Angeles, The Metropolis Case author Matthew Gallaway writes about the challenges of representing his home city of Pittsburgh in his fiction. "For starters, there's the question of accuracy."
When A Critic Becomes An Author
Vanity Fair talks to renowned book critic Michiko Kakutani about her debut The Death of Truth and why she decided to become an author.
The Questions We Ask
Over at New York, Year in Reading alumna Meaghan O’Connell writes on “What’re you going to do when your kid Googles you?” and other patronizing questions for women who write.