Steven Johnson's Blog, page 7

Hometown Show Tonight!

Okay, so I'm almost done clogging up this blog with posts about the book tour events, but tonight's a special one: I'm going to do an Inauguration-themed talk about Invention of Air here in Brooklyn, tonight at 7PM at the Court Street Barnes and Noble, in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill. It would be great to see folks from the neighborhood show up....

And thanks to everyone who came out and bought books on the west coast. We hit #7 on the Pacific Northwest nonfiction list (go Seattle and Portland!),

FT on Invention

Lovely review of Invention by John Gapper in today's Financial Times:

Johnson's biography, with its digressions into theories of scientific and


cultural progress, and tales of Priestley's experiments, feels almost as


full of ingenuity and as delightful as its subject. It fizzes with


exposition, anecdote, and intellectual asides.

I just noticed that the Amazon page for the book has been updated with a collection of quotes from the reviews. Always exciting to see them all strung together. I've

Kepler's Is In Menlo Park

Correcting my previous post, which I can't do directly from my phone.

The List, Continued

So, very good news today: Invention Of Air hit the Times extended bestseller list on its first full week, at #23, and the Booksense  list at #25.  That's the best start I've ever had for any of my books, and it means that I've now had four straight bestsellers. So thanks to all of you who have picked up a copy and come out to the events. There's lots more to come, though, so hopefully we will keep climbing the list in the coming weeks.

I'm in SF now -- thank god, because it's 70 degrees here and