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postings.
Introduction:
I am a writer — novelist, pop-math author, reviewer, and opinion journalist — living on Long Island, New York.
This is my home page. I have archived the content of most of my written work (other than published books) on this website, so that you can get an idea of its scope and quality.
Commentary columns, articles, and reviews are all posted to the RSS feed above. Click on the button to see them, with most recent at the top. You can subscribe to this feed using Google Reader or one of the many similar services (though you don't have to subscribe in order to read the pieces). The Reader will alert you when I post anything new. To subscribe, just click on the orange button here on this page, then copy'n'paste the feed's URL (that's the thing beginning "http://…") into the Reader's subscription box; or if the Reader makes it even easier than that for you to subscribe, follow their instructions.
The "Last 20" link in the navigation box brings up my last 20 published columns, articles, and reviews.
Other pages accessible from here via the navigation box offer readings of poetry and prose, interviews I have done at various times, an album of family pictures from our marriage onwards, a "virtual attic" of memorabilia and photographs from my own and my family's histories, and any kinds of notes or oddities I feel like storing on my website under "Miscellaneous."
To get in touch with me, please use the email address scrawled (in hopes of foxing the spambots) next to my mugshot at the left here.
Below the line I have put a handful of links to commonly requested pages.
[Note on Chinese characters : There are some Chinese characters here and there in the following pages. The only web browser that might have any difficulty with them is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, version 8. You should see a row of Chinese characters here: 一排空方格. If instead you saw a row of little hollow squares, go to "Tools … Compatibility View Settings," and add johnderbyshire.com to the box. Then "Tools" again and just click on "Compatibility View," so that it's ticked. If that fails you'll have to install Chinese from "Control Panel … Languages," and you'll need your system disk. Why does Microsoft Corp. make our lives so difficult? Don't ask me.]
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Reader favorites and common enquiries:
• The blog for  We Are Doomed. |
• The blog for  Prime Obsession. |
| • That Bruce Lee movie. | • My rendition of the Riemann Hypothesis song. |
| • How to build a tree house. | • 2001 China Diary. |
| • Brainteaser solutions. | • Radio Derb transcripts. |
| • Adventures in Lit. Crit. | • The Sacramento Tales. |
| • La Route est Dure | • The Crusaders. |
| • Family history. | • My curriculum vitae. |
| • Funny foreigners | • The Book of Love. |
| • Faith FAQ | • Wrestling, Not Dancing. |