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Category: Writing

Book reviews

Please judge this book by its cover

April 13, 2017 15 Comments

Emmanuel Carrere said, “To write a book, you’ve got to be persuaded that you’re the only person who could write it.” A corollary to that is that the book that you are writing does not exist already because you are not only the only person alive but the only person for all time. A tall order that is slightly mitigated […]

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Writing

Putting the second edition to bed with an assist from Zadok the Priest

December 22, 2016 6 Comments

A miracle has occurred. Actually there was no miracle at all, just a ton of hard work by a number of talented professionals and me. The second edition of my textbook, Medical Neurobiology (Oxford University Press, 2017) is in production. My part is done. Of course my part started with a few years of writing which was greatly aided by my […]

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Book reviews

Camus, Spanx, the Cerebellum, & Writing

December 25, 2015 10 Comments

Recently I was asked to answer a “Proust Questionnaire” for a get-to-know-your-teacher blurb. I had never heard the term but the exemplary questions, (e.g. Your favorite virtue; If not yourself, who would you be?; For what fault have you most toleration?; Favorite heroines in fiction) were clear enough that I was able to get into the spirit. I wrote back my […]

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