This week’s edition of the Times Book Review features an essay that I wrote about the research system I’ve used for the past few years: a tool for exploring the couple thousand notes and quotations that I’ve assembled over the past decade — along with the text of finished essays and books. I…

Thanks to everyone for the amazing response to the Times essay and my subsequent post. Clearly, there is some serious pent-up interest out there in these kinds of tools. I’ve received so many questions and suggestions for further exploration that I haven’t been able to go through them all…

This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features a generously long excerpt from my new book, Everything Bad Is Good For You, which should be trickling into bookstores over the next week or so. (You can pre-order on Amazon as well.) The Times Mag excerpt is a condensed version of the…

I think Fasier’s right that I’m misusing the phrase “jump the shark” in my iPod post below, though I don’t totally buy his extended definition of the phrase:

[“Jumping the shark”] doesn’t mean by itself that something has become a sell-out, or that something has become uncool. It means that something that or someone who has…

As I mentioned in a few previous posts, my new book, Everything Bad Is Good For You, is off to the printers, and I’ve now officially entered the strange chrysalis-like transformation from a solo writer working alone with his word processor to a small cog in a much larger publishing and marketing…