One of my resolutions for the new year was spending less time googling myself. (Such are the vanities of an insecure writer.) So far, I'm off to a bad start. I apologize for the self-promotion, but there have recently been some very nice reviews of the book that I thought I'd share. Here's an excerpt from the Washington Post review:
Jonah Lehrer's smart, elegantly written little book expresses an appealing faith that art and science offer different but complementary views of the world. His main argument, that artists have often intuited essential truths about human nature that are later verified by scientific research, is hardly new. But he pursues this argument with freshness and enthusiasm in eight enjoyable case studies studded with arresting sentences that voice the 25-year-old author's delighted sense of discovery.
If you're interested (and even my mom has probably stopped reading by now), additional reviews can be found at the Star-Tribune, Dallas Morning News, and the Toronto Star.
Also, I'll be giving a talk and signing books at the River Run book store in Portsmouth, NH on January 10th at 7 PM.
Comments (7)
Bah, "self promotion" is actually "well deserved reward for hard work." Congratulations on all of the great reviews.
Posted by: Rachael | January 3, 2008 12:11 PM