Oh, christ. Another book is coming from those frauds at the DI, Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. It’s Stephen Meyer’s unqualified, incompetent take on the Cambrian explosion. Casey Luskin has already given us three reasons we’re supposed to buy it. 1) It’s going to contain the …
Category Archive: Books
Apr 12 2013
Greta Christina has a new book
It’s called Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More. I bought it. I read the first page of the introduction, my gnarled and liver-spotted hands trembling, and saw words that were threatening to my comfortable cis male heterosexual conventionality, and then started getting palpitations. I set it aside. Maybe when I’ve …
Apr 05 2013
Textbooks could always get worse
We could have math books spiced up with bible quotes. Or history books that tell us Jesus is the focal point of all history. Oh, wait. Some American kids are being taught out of books like that. (via 0xabad1dea)
Apr 03 2013
Goddamn cancer
This past week, I got to meet Jay Lake, a most excellent SF author and current cancer survivor who did not give me optimistic news about his prognosis. Then this morning I get up to the news that my all-time favorite author, Iain Banks, has issued A Personal Statement in which he announces that he …
Mar 14 2013
The cold dead hand of Christopher Hitchens will reach beyond the grave and get you
Hitchens’ own publisher, Verso, apparently commissioned a hatchet job on him, hiring a Marxist-Leninist ideologue to write (using that word loosely) a tell-all called Unhitched to expose Hitch as a plagiarist and heretic and fame-grubbing careerist. Now I utterly detested Hitchens’ politics; I think he saw the world in binary terms and backed the wrong …
Mar 12 2013
She’s too young to be sick!
Ania, who writes at Scribbles and Rants, has been coping with chronic illness for way too long, so she’s decided to do something constructive about it: she’s raising money to write a book, Young, Sick and Invisible: A Skeptic's Journey With Chronic Illness. If you identify with her situation, help her out.
Feb 21 2013
Mission accomplished
I am relieved to announce that this book thingie has been edited and shipped back to the publisher. Next step is some arcane process called “typesetting”. The best thing about it: I really, really love editors. They have a skill that they apply well, and they make everything twinkle sninily that they touch. I wish …
Feb 15 2013
Land of Milk and Money
Long time (and I mean grizzled hoary ancient) commenter Zeno has a book, Land of Milk and Money, and he’s going to be signing copies in San Francisco tonight. If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and give him some support!
Feb 06 2013
Hey, there’s a virtual book floating on the verge of existence here
I have good news and bad news. The excellent news: I have received the copy-edited manuscript of my book-to-be, The Happy Atheist, from Pantheon. After many delays, it’s finally going to happen for sure! Go pre-order your copy now! Buy buy buy buy buy! The heart-attack-inducing but not at all unexpected news: I’m supposed to …
Jan 20 2013
Scientology is creeping me out
I’ve been reading Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright, which I have to say is one of the most frustrating books I’ve ever worked through. Not because it is a bad book, but because the author is doing his job: Wright maintains a detached, non-judgmental, even sympathetic tone while …
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