by Mary | Nov 24, 2010 | Current events
I deplore anti-intellectualism. I cringe when a somebody brags about “going with my gut” or sneers at smartypants Ph.D. eggheads who think climate change or natural selection are real. Unlike a majority of my fellow citizens, I actually even like that our...
by Mary | Nov 15, 2010 | Just for fun!
People always ask writers where they get their ideas. What I want to know is, where do microbiologists get their ideas? What kind of person looks at a bug and thinks, “Hey, I bet if we isolate protein from a bunch of cockroach brains and sprinkle it on stuff,...
by Mary | Nov 12, 2010 | A THREAD OF GRACE
Several readers have told me about a N.Y. Times article entitled “Italy’s Treatment of Jews in World War II is Reconsidered.” I just read the article, and I think it’s fair. Mussolini’s government promulgated anti-semitic race laws in...
by Mary | Nov 5, 2010 | Word Rants
Okay, this has just got to stop. Twice now, I’ve heard reporters on CNN use effort as a verb, as in, “I’m efforting to find out, Wolf!” No, darling. You are trying to find out. Or, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, perhaps you...
by Mary | Oct 19, 2010 | Just for fun!
It started like a Stephen King novel. A reader contacted me about my books initially, but we got to emailing about our dogs, and the exchange went on for a few days. I mentioned that I had to go practice piano, and Ms. H asked what I was working on. So I sent a link...
by Mary | Oct 18, 2010 | What I'm working on now.
… writing a blog is like walking on a tightrope above a vat of boiling narcissism. Thanks to all of you who’ve signed up to see if the entertainment value outweighs the wretched self-promotion that authors are expected to do these days! Hoping not to...
by Mary | Oct 14, 2010 | The Sparrow movie
From the beginning, readers have said that The Sparrow is very cinematic. People in Hollywood thought so, too. Producer Nick Wechsler came close to doing a movie adaptation twice, first with Antonio Banderas at Universal Pictures and most recently with Brad Pitt at...
by Mary | Sep 27, 2010 | Just for fun!
Welcome to the updated and expanded website for novelist Mary Doria Russell! Her newest novel, DOC, will be published on May 3, 2011, but you can read an excerpt now by clicking on DOC above. Check out MEDIA to listen to radio interviews and podcasts, and to find...
