The paperback version of The Belief Instinct is out on Monday. Read what the critics have said about my first book by clicking here. (Not for the faith of heart.)
Meet Eugene Hoskins from Coldwater, MS. I hope you fall in love with him as much as I did.
I’ll be chatting soon with Boyd Matson on National Geographic Weekend about The Belief Instinct. Stay tuned for details!
“Autistic Savants: Geniuses Of Obscure Devotions.“ Scientific American BERING IN MIND 02.14.12. (Color postcard. “I.C.R.R. Through University, Miss.” Published by University Store, University, Miss. Circa 1920.)
“I stretched out in the grass, my skull on a large, flat rock and my eyes staring straight up at the milky way, that strange breach of astral sperm and heavenly urine … My kind of debauchery soils not only my body and my thoughts, but also anything I may conceive in its course, that is to say, the vast starry universe, which merely serves as a backdrop.”
—Georges Bataille (Story of the Eye, 1929)
p.s. Happy Valentine’s Day.
Resurrecting last year’s Valentine’s Day post. Time moves slowly on the wings of limerence.
Happy Darwin Day, everyone. Today’s mutations are tomorrow’s adaptations. (Well, some of them … others just make people stare.)
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What do you think of the UK cover of “Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?” (Doubleday). Yes, I realise I could say something about the “stiff British humour” or about the “hardcover” and how it’s “coming July 19th, 2012” but I like a bit more of a challenge.