It’s Friday, so it must be time for Donna’s WRITE REPORT… Trader Faulkner will be back with us next week, continuing his epic encounters with the greats of the 20th century – but today, we’re …
Posts Tagged ‘Brain’
Not Safe For Schools
Can Writing Be Taught?
Stories sprinkled liberally with words like “striate”, “strafe”, “rime”, “rinse”. Stories with labored prose – instead of simply saying, “I remembered”, it’s “My brain rolled up into a tube and my childhood rushed through it…”.
Is …
The Perils of DRM
Our discussion with leading intellectual property lawyer Jeremy Morton, partner at international law firm Fasken Martineau, concludes today – does DRM (digital rights management) offer authors any protection from piracy? Research shows that the fear …
A Tale of Two Publishers
Jonah Lehrer, author of the newly-published The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind chats to Peter today for the last time… about writing for the New Yorker, writing on planes, inheriting Malcolm …
The Author Tour
It’s Thursday and Peter chats to Jonah Lehrer, author of the just-published The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind about the author’s life on the road – the contrast between the solitary …
Reductionism
Jonah Lehrer, author of the just-published The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind continues to talk to Peter today about some of the profound issues his book raises – in particular, the …
Sweaty Hands in the Casino of Life
Jonah Lehrer, author of the just-published The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind continues talking to Peter today about neuroscience, decision-making and the concept that “pure reason” may be a disease. If …
Bad Biography Juju
How much of the reader’s worldview is logical, and how much subjective? Peter considers how this impacts writers. In today’s Write Report, Donna looks at ways in which unflattering biographies and their biographers can be …
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