The paperback version of my first book, Proust Was A Neuroscientist, is now shipping from Amazon. Needless to say, everyone should buy the book in triplicate. I'd apologize for the self-promotion, but isn't blogging just one big orgy of self-promotion?
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So my book, Proust Was A Neuroscientist, is now shipping from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It might even be in your local bookstore. I'll do my best not to turn this blog into an orgy of self-promotion, but feel free to check out some of the early blurbs (from Oliver Sacks, Joe Ledoux, Antonio…
The next few months are going to be full of news and riffs on my next book, How We Decide, which comes out in February. As a result, I'm trying to pace myself and limit the shameless self-promotion, at least for now. But sometimes one just can't resist! So here are some nice early reviews. Kirkus…
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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…
Already have it in hardcopy, but good question about self promotion. Not sure on that one. Here's a coincidentally relevant post on the topic from Seth Godin: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/08/policies-biases.html
Are you kidding? I'm getting one for each room in my house. The book is brilliant.
All best, Virginia Rose (not his mom) Kane
I loaned my copy of Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think and haven't seen it since. That just came out in softcover too, so you provided a plug for him by proxy. Excellent company to be in.
I won't give up my hardcover Proust (from Powell's, btw) and I know people who will be be intrigued by the book. Lit and music backgrounds, but curious about how the creation process works. Your recent Boston Globe articles on memory and depression were a big hit.
Never apologize for promoting quality talent. As long as it isn't taking time away from writing the next book.
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It doesn't have to be. Some people share their writings online simply because they believe in the value of the information and ideas in them, and they genuinely desire to contribute to others' welfare through edification. One might accuse such people of being presumptuous, charitable, or vain - or perhaps all of these at once - but ascribing motive is an undertaking fraught with uncertainty. Self-promotion may indeed be your goal, and it is a legitimate goal indeed, but your (possibly facetious) insinuation that self-promotion is the goal of all bloggers is unwarranted. Depending on your intention, you may or may not want to lower the damage potential of your closing remark by appending a suitable emoticon.
I just red the dutch translation of 'Proust was a neuroscientist'. I'am a neurologist, a Proust-fan and a Woolf-fan so it was a non-stop reading of a brilliant book. One problem: in the Woolf chapter it is said that 'the self is the story we tell our self about our experieces' (my translation from dutch). This formulation implies two selfs. We are the story; 'we are the words' (V.Woolf); 'the story is not really told by you as a self because the core you is born as the story is told, within the story itself' (Damassio). Perhaps it is a translation problem?
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