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How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?

How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?

In my on-going series that looks into the numbers of the book market, here are some sales numbers on Pulitzer Prize winning books from Mal Warwick: * “The 2014 general nonfiction winner, Tom’s River by Dan Fagin, went from 10 copies [before the prize announcement] to 162 copies sold (6,

Vitamin D

Vitamin D

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-19: Bully

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-19: Bully

Towards a Christian Vitalism | Christian WinterA Response to John EhrettAmerican ReformerChristian Winter A Muscular Christianity for a new millennium Nuclear power helps bring down electricity prices by 75% in FinlandCountry expects wind to be its largest energy source by 2027The NationalJohn Benny Finland is a little less populous than Arizona,

With Both Hands Classics: Jurassic Park

With Both Hands Classics: Jurassic Park

I recently re-read Jurassic Park for the first time in decades. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with Michael Crichton's books, and the movies based on them. I read every book of his that I could find. After a while, I drifted away, looking for variety

A flash of inspiration

A flash of inspiration

Klein organizations

Klein organizations

In a Weekly Digest in April, I posted a link to Explaining Tech's Notion of Talent Scarcity. In my head, I implicitly linked this to Burton Klein's classification of firms: Type 1: “Happy warrior rationality” is associated with ideological outbreeding and is commonly employed in making

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology. This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built