March 1, 2007

Review of three anthologies of science essays

I reviewed the following on my other blog:

Gawande, Atul, editor & Jesse Cohen, series editor. The best American science writing 2006. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. 362pp.

Greene, Brian, editor & Tim Folger, series editor. The best American science and nature writing 2006. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 290pp.

Zivkovic, Bora, editor. The open laboratory: The best writing on science blogs 2006. Chapel Hill, NC: Lulu.com/coturnix, 2007. 315pp.


Full review here.

Full list of science book reviews here.

4 comments:

Bora Zivkovic said...

Thank you for a great review!

We'll make the next one even better!

Bora Zivkovic said...

Oh, also 11 women and 13 non-US addresses are included (some are pseudonymous, so you could not tell).

John Dupuis said...

You're welcome, Bora, it was literally my pleasure to review the book.

And thanks for the info on the contributors. I'll update the main post.

Bora Zivkovic said...

THank you.

If one wants to be literal, there are 51 contributors: the poem at the beginning is #51.

Also, a good thing about online publishing is that I can make corrections you suggest for the second printing before the book gets the ISBN number and starts getting sold in bookstores and on amazon.