Alan Lightman presents "Mr. g: A Novel About the Creation"
The Concord Bookshop, Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 3pm
alan lightman reads from Mr g: A Novel About the Creation.
Please join us on Sunday, February 5th at 3 pm as we welcome back to the Bookshop local author Alan Lightman, reading from his latest novel, "Mr. G". A theoretical physicist and a writer, Alan Lightman's novels include The "Diagnosis", a finalist for the National Book Award, "Ghost", and the international bestseller "Einstein's Dreams",, which has become one of the most widely read books on college campuses. Salman Rushdie calls it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Praised by The New York Times as "a scientist in love with words, one who can write clearly and appealingly about his subject for a lay readership," Lightman is widely considered one of the great scientific interpreters of his generation. His acclaimed non-fiction books include "A Sense of the Mysterious" and "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science". His essays have appeared in Nature, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and top scientific journals. Lightman has served on the faculties of Harvard, where he taught physics and astronomy, and MIT, where he was one of the first people to receive a dual faculty appointment, in science and in the humanities. He has been recognized for his writings by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he is a Fellow, and has twice been a juror for The Pulitzer Prize, in the fiction and non-fiction categories. (TooFondOfBooks)… (more)
Please join us on Sunday, February 5th at 3 pm as we welcome back to the Bookshop local author Alan Lightman, reading from his latest novel, "Mr. G". A theoretical physicist and a writer, Alan Lightman's novels include The "Diagnosis", a finalist for the National Book Award, "Ghost", and the international bestseller "Einstein's Dreams",, which has become one of the most widely read books on college campuses. Salman Rushdie calls it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Praised by The New York Times as "a scientist in love with words, one who can write clearly and appealingly about his subject for a lay readership," Lightman is widely considered one of the great scientific interpreters of his generation. His acclaimed non-fiction books include "A Sense of the Mysterious" and "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science". His essays have appeared in Nature, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and top scientific journals. Lightman has served on the faculties of Harvard, where he taught physics and astronomy, and MIT, where he was one of the first people to receive a dual faculty appointment, in science and in the humanities. He has been recognized for his writings by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he is a Fellow, and has twice been a juror for The Pulitzer Prize, in the fiction and non-fiction categories. (TooFondOfBooks)… (more)
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