Posts tagged: Stuart Rojstaczer

Coming to Town: Stuart Rojstaczer for The Mathematician's Shiva

Posted on 2014-09-08 at 13:39 by montsamu

"Her craziness was happily wed to her intellect. There are no reasonable geniuses in this world, I am convinced." So writes middle-aged fictional geophysicist Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch of his mother, within the pages of actual geophysicist Stuart Rojstaczer's debut novel The Mathematician's Shiva. A brilliant mathematician, Rachela is rumored to be taking the secret proof to the Navier-Stokes equation to her grave. But first, and trust me, somehow this all works, Rojstaczer gives us alternating scenes

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Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged Stuart Rojstaczer, the mathematician's shiva, the regulator bookshop

September newsletter: John Hodgman, tiltExpo, HMLT, Stuart Rojstaczer, Kim Harrison, John Darnielle, The Escapism Film Festival, Scott Westerfeld, and more!

Posted on 2014-09-05 at 10:00 by montsamu

Vol 4. No 9. September 5, 2014: The first Friday of the month has no fewer than five events to pique your interest, and the first week of the month has already brought the first of five six! seven! new books by North Carolina authors that will hit stores in September.

Let's start with those events happening today (Friday, September 5):

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  • While most festival events are on Saturday and are free, the Bookmarks Festival in Winston-Salem, NC does have a pair of ticketed "Eat and Greet" sessions on Friday
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Posted in newsletter | Tagged clay and susan griffith, david drake, Escapism Film Festival, james maxey, jason mott, jenna black, John Darnielle, john hodgman, kim harrison, lewis shiner, lisa shearin, matt ross, Scott Westerfeld, Stuart Rojstaczer, tiltExpo, tony daniel, william gibson