My Blog
Welcome to the official blog of Ron Blumenfeld. Be sure to buy my new book, The King’s Anatomist and check out my other writings!
Happy Birthday to The King’s Anatomist
October 12, 2021 marked the official launch of The King’s Anatomist into the literary world – a very big and crowded world, as it turns out. Estimates vary for many reasons, but if that day was a typical one in the publishing industry, about 2,000 American titles –...
Galen – Wrong, But Still Awesome
Contemporary medical scientists and practitioners have a deep understanding of human structure and function – from the organs and tissues under the skin to the multitude of cells of which they are built. We’ve delved deeper into the structures and biochemical...
Come On, America. Time to Do Something about Mass Murders.
This was going to be a wonky blog about the Greek physician Galen and his bizarre notions – by modern standards – of how the body works. It was to be a follow up to a blog from last August about him and his anatomical writings. But Galen will wait. The horror of the...
The Fateful Journey of an Orphaned Page of the Fabrica
This October past, at my Zoomed book launch, I explained how I came to write my novel: For over forty years, my mother was the sole employee of a rare book dealer in New York City, Philip C. Duschnes Rare Books and First Editions....
The James Webb Space Telescope: I’m Blown Away
This December 25 past, at 7:20 AM Eastern Time, an international team of scientists gave humanity a gift that Santa couldn’t dream of equaling in a thousand Christmases. Carefully packaged atop a European Ariane 5 rocket, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shot...
Distracted Writer? These Tools Are Here to Help. Kinda.
The December 20 issue of the New Yorker ran an article called “Focus Mode” that chronicles the author’s search for the “perfect tool” for the distracted writer – by which he means a focused, distraction-free environment dedicated to the writing craft. In his words,...