Literary discovery in…Conway, NH? You won’t believe this. A friend of mine from Harvard, Bob Glandon, who teaches English at a small college in New Hampshire, happens to live in Conway, NH, near the home of Dan Brown’s parents. He just wrote to tell me some remarkable news. Yesterday, he was taking his garbage to… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
The National Science Teachers Association recommends my new book. Which is gratifying: John Farrell’s lively and concise biography of Lemaitre includes a history of the theories of the origin on the universe…The Day without Yesterday is a significant contribution to the history of science. Students and teachers will learn about a mostly unknown but quite… Continue reading
Tom Bethell Concedes? Missed in all the hoopla over the new Politically Incorrect Guide to Science by American Spectator editor Tom Bethell is an interesting fact. There’s no chapter summarizing his past vaunted attacks on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Indeed, when I browsed the book recently at B&N I must confess I was almost disappointed… Continue reading
My old college buddy and now priest in Rome, John Wauck, has a new blog. John’s a priest of Opus Dei (cue sinister sounding music!). Funny, he doesn’t look like an albino monk to me…
From Publisher’s Lunch: Frey Acknowledges Mistakes on Today’s Oprah; Readers Sue “Now like many of you, I have a million little questions,” Oprah Winfrey says of James Frey at the top of today’s show–an evolution of the viewpoint she expressed in a phone call to the Larry King Show. An ABC news report says that… Continue reading