Anthony Doerr's Blog, page 5

Anthony's latest book was released in softcover on July 5, and includes Anthony's newest story The Deep tucked into the back of the book. Memory Wall also won The 2010 Story Prize, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, the NYTimes, the Boston Globe, the SF Chronicle, and many other newspapers. Plus, the title story is being adapted as a feature film.

You can read more about the book here, watch a book trailer here, order it from Powells or Amazon, or ask for it at your local independent bookshop.

Anthony's latest book will be released in softcover on July 5, and will include Anthony's newest story The Deep tucked into the back of the book. Memory Wall also won The 2010 Story Prize, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, the NYTimes, the Boston Globe, the SF Chronicle, and many other newspapers. Plus, the title story is being adapted as a feature film.

You can read more about the book here, watch a book trailer here, order it from Powells, or ask for it at your local independent bookshop.

Four Seasons in Rome is a Summer Reading pick in Narrative Magazine.

Anthony writes about a school librarian in the June 5 NYTimes.

Film adaptation of Memory Wall is underway.

Lewin is six feet two, silver-haired, and speaks with a Dutch accent. In the videos of his lectures he lopes energetically in front of his chalkboards and makes pronouncements like "Now, I'm going blow your minds!" You can watch him shoot bullets through paint cans, ride a bike with a rocket attached to the back, or make a battery with trash cans and water. From The Music of Physics a May 15 column in the Globe.

Anthony will be teaching workshops in Sun Valley and Cleveland this June.

MHII. SHF. WMIETG. Are these text messaging acronyms? Scientific organizations? Weird tweets? Nope, they're abbreviations suggested by the machinist Alfred Vail in the 1840s for making telegraph messages more efficient. MHII meant "my health is improving." SHF stood for "stocks have fallen." WMIETG was "When may I expect the goods?" Senders and receivers who could strip extraneous clutter out of their messages had an economic advantage… From Anthony's 50th On Science column, which appeared in the March 20 Sunday Globe.

At a lovely ceremony in New York City, Anthony got to read with Suzanne Rivecca and Yiyun Li, and at the end of the evening, Memory Wall was awarded the 2010 Story Prize.

Anthony's short story "The Deep" is longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG private bank award.