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writing in the open 
11.16.2005, 5:01 PM
posted by bob stein
Mitch Stephens, NYU professor, was here for lunch today. when Ben and I met with him about a month ago about the academic bloggers/public intellectuals project, Mitch mentioned he had just signed a contract with Carroll & Graf to write a book on the history of atheism. today's lunch was to follow up a suggestion we made that he might consider starting a blog to parallel the research and writing of the book. i'm delighted to report that Mitch has enthusiastically taken up the idea. sometime in the next few weeks we'll launch a new blog, tentatively called Only Sky (shortened from the lyric of john lennon's Imagine ". . . Above us only sky"). it will be an experiment to see whether blogging can be useful to the process of writing a book. i expect Mitch will be thinking out loud and asking all sorts of interesting questions. i also think that readers will likely provide important insight as well as ask their own fascinating questions which will in turn suggest fruitful directions of inquiry. stay tuned.
Posted by bob stein on November 16, 2005 5:01 PM
tags: academic, academy, atheism, blog, blogging, blogs, book-blog_experiments, books, experiment, god, religion, research, writing
comments (1):
ARTHUR ENGORON on December 22, 2005 6:22 AM:Eugene Stantomasso, my Columbia Art History professor, used to say, "Trust the art, not the artist." But process is important; especially, I think, to a deconstructionist.
