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Jonathan Lethem: Brooklyn Crime Novel, beginning September 9, 2024
We’re honored to have author Jonathan Lethem as our guest in the WELL’s public Inkwell.vue conference for the next two weeks. Jonathan will be discussing his life and work, especially his latest, Brooklyn Crime Novel, winner of the New York City Book Award. Jonathan is the author of thirteen novels; his work has been translated into over thirty languages. Please join us!
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Recently in the Inkwell
Erin Bow: Simon Sort of Says, August 27 – September 9, 2024
Inkwell welcomes author Erin Bow, who will discuss the writing life, and her Newbery Honor Award-winning book _SIMON SORT OF SAYS_. The book was long-listed for the National Book Award, and won a Schneider Family Book Award. And we’ll also focus on the life of writing and the writing life. Erin was trained as a physicist but somehow ended up writing poetry and children’s fiction. She is the author of three volumes of poetry (writing as Erin Noteboom) and six novels for younger readers.
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Donn Harris: This Darkness Has Got to Give in conversation with David Gans Jun 18 – Jul 1
Donn Harris, author of _This Darkness Has Got to Give: Post-Kindergarten Lessons from the Grateful Dead_, about how the Grateful Dead influenced more than just the music world. The Dead were part of a time not unlike the Camelot we attribute to the Kennedy era, or the gospel and blues foundation of the Civil Rights movement’s powerful social and artistic forces and how they combined to give us our own Renaissance, a rebirth that broke free from an oppressive past.
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Philip K. Dick, The Last Ten Years: A Conversation Between a Dark-Haired Girl and Tim Powers, June 1 – 18.
Linda Castellani, Philip Dick’s “dark-haired girl,” and author Tim Powers discuss the the private, often darker, side of the Philip Dick that they knew intimately.
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Forrest Mims: Maverick Scientist, May 21 – June 3, 2024
Forrest Mims is legendary among makers for his dozens of books and hundreds of articles featuring DIY electronics, technology and science projects, which he has been writing since 1972. In his latest book, “Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist,” he shares how and why he became a self-made amateur atmospheric scientist, with dozens of papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, based on data gathered with his own handmade devices.
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Forrest Mims: Maverick Scientist, May 21 – June 3, 2024
Forrest Mims is legendary among makers for his dozens of books and hundreds of articles featuring DIY electronics, technology and science projects, which he has been writing since 1972. In his latest book, “Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist,” he shares how and why he became a self-made amateur atmospheric scientist, with dozens of papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, based on data gathered with his own handmade devices.
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Finding Dr. Who: John Hood and Andrew Lewin, May 11 – July 13
On May 11th, a new Dr. Who series will launch featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, his latest companion. The WELL is hosting a discussion of the series that anyone online can read, as well as an internal “Whovians” conference for WELL members. Follow the public conversation as we talk about all things Who – past, present and future.
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Susannah Fox: Rebel Health, April 18 – May 6, 2024
Health and technology strategist Susannah Fox joins Inkwell to discuss her new book, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care. The book describes the emerging patient-led healthcare revolution leveraging Internet and other technologies and communities of patients with similar conditions.
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Don Armstrong: The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, March 13 – April 6, 2024
Author Don Armstrong discusses his book, The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, which tells Gleason’s story as the son of a horseplayer who became America’s leading pop music critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival. A pioneering jazz and rock critic, he helped the San Francisco Chronicle transition into the rock era.
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The books and commentary we’ve spotlighted over the years run the gamut from timely political commentary, to noteworthy blogs, to gardening and cooking books, to parenting issues, to the social implications of new technologies. We’ve delved into the evolution of online culture and communications technologies, and we’ve explored improvisational and collaborative branches of music history. Who can say what we’ll talk about next?
Previous Discussions
The State of the World 2022
The State of the World 2021
The State of the World 2020
The State of the World 2019
The State of the World 2018
Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality
Roger McNamee: Brain Hacking For Dummies
Ellen Ullman: Life in Code
Julie Rehmeyer: Through the Shadowlands
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