by ronblumenfeld | Oct 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
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 –...
by ronblumenfeld | Jul 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
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” 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,...
