by ronblumenfeld | Jun 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by ronblumenfeld | Mar 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
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....
by ronblumenfeld | Jan 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by ronblumenfeld | Jan 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
The December 20 issue of the New Yorker ran an article called “Focus Mode” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/can-distraction-free-devices-change-the-way-we-write that chronicles the author’s search for the “perfect tool” for the distracted writer – by...
by ronblumenfeld | Nov 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
In a galaxy long ago and far away, a ruthless emperor built a terrifying weapon to vaporize entire planets. He called it Death Star. And now, in our own galaxy, a ruthless emperor built a terrifying weapon to vaporize entire retail stores. He calls it Amazon, and...
by ronblumenfeld | Sep 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
If internet surveys are to be believed, most debut novelists are thirty-somethings, https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-age-for-novelists-publishing-their-debut-novel the outliers being a smattering of teenage wunderkinds and a British woman who in 2019...
