Authors on the Web
New York Times, May 10, 2013
...is amusing and touching in a Looking for Alaska meets Rabelais meets Friday Night Lights kind of way. A. J. Jacobs is the author of several books, most recently “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection...
New York Times, January 18, 2013
...example, in No Cheating, No Dying Elizabeth Weil documents her marriage improvement project, and in Drop Dead Healthy, A. J. Jacobs describes his program to become maximally healthy. The readers self-interest is implied rather than spelled out. But all...
Computer News Middle East, January 10, 2013
...YouTube each minute, astonishing figures. However, my favourite essay in the book was written by a journalist named A. J. Jacobs. He describes his relationship with technology which helps humans to self-track their fitness and health in everyday life....
ChurchTimes, November 23, 2012
...Year of Living Biblically: One man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible by A. J. Jacobs (Arrow, £8.99 (£8.10); 978-0-09-950979-0). My favourite book has got to be this book by A. J. Jacobs, a non-practising Jew, who decided to...
New York Times, August 12, 2012
...To the Editor: A. J. Jacobs wittily and self-deprecatingly nails the tribulations of the constant blurber ( July 29). In his effort to wean himself from acceding to further requests for blurbs, he might take...
EveningSun.com, July 30, 2012
...Memorial - Chris Leonard) "This I Believe: Life Lessons" (Memorial - Elene Little) "Drop Dead Healthy," by A. J. Jacobs. (Perpetual Honor - Dr. James M. O'Connor) "Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing the Way We Eat,"...
New York Times, July 27, 2012
...Dwight Garner tweeted, Half the crap galleys Ive seen in the past year were blurbed by one human: A. J. Jacobs. His hashtag: #timeforanintervention. Within an hour, both my agent and my editor did intervene. In a state of great concern, they told me I...
New York Times, May 10, 2013
...is amusing and touching in a Looking for Alaska meets Rabelais meets Friday Night Lights kind of way. A. J. Jacobs is the author of several books, most recently “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection...
New York Times, May 10, 2013
...is amusing and touching in a Looking for Alaska meets Rabelais meets Friday Night Lights kind of way. A. J. Jacobs is the author of several books, most recently “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection...
Turkmenistan News.net, April 29, 2013
...value of adult day care centers is ... International Herald Tribune - Sunday 28th April, 2013 To the Editor: A. J. Jacobs ("Two Cheers for Web U!," Sunday Review, April 21) grades his experiences as an enrollee in several massive open online courses,...
Turkmenistan News.net, April 29, 2013
...To the Editor: A. J. Jacobs ("Two Cheers for Web U!," Sunday Review, April 21) grades his experiences as an enrollee in several massive open online courses, or MOOCs. In most categories he...
New York Times, April 28, 2013
...To the Editor: A. J. Jacobs (, Sunday Review, April 21) grades his experiences as an enrollee in several massive open online courses, or MOOCs. In most categories he rates them as good to very...
New York Times, April 28, 2013
...To the Editor: A. J. Jacobs (, Sunday Review, April 21) grades his experiences as an enrollee in several massive open online courses, or MOOCs. In most categories he rates them as good to very...
CNBC, March 31, 2013
...code and elsewhere that favor long-term returns driven by innovation over shortsighted pressure to reduce costs. The journalist A. J. Jacobs has perfectly described our current situation when it comes to the relationship between age and innovation. In...





















