MIT Press Publicity Department Major Highlights Report

The MIT Press Publicity Department 2023 Major Media Highlights 1A/NPR, interview with Erika Nesvold, author of Off-Earth ABC News, interview with Meredith Broussard, author of More than a Glitch

American Scientist, review of Shohini Ghose’s Her Space, Her Time Art in America, review of Mondrian’s Dress BBC: I.

BBC Future, excerpt from Christopher Preston’s Tenacious Beasts

II.

BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, interview with Mark Blacklock for J.B. Ballard’s Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

III.

BBC Radio 4’s Open Book, interview with Mark Blacklock for J.G. Ballard’s Selected Non-fiction 1962-2007

IV.

BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, interview with Patricia Meisol, author of

A Heart Afire (link is forthcoming) V.

BBC Sky at Night, review and interview with Shohini Ghose, author of Her Space, Her Time

Boston Public Radio/GBH, interview with Lee McIntyre about On Disinformation Big Think:

I.

Interview with Lee McIntyre about On Disinformation

II.

Excerpt from The Great Remobilization

III.

Excerpt from Data is Everybody’s Business

IV.

Excerpt from Her Space, Her Time

V.

Excerpt from A Theory of Everyone

VI.

Excerpt from The Age of Prediction

Bloomberg Businessweek Radio, interview with Carol Geffner, author of Building a New Leadership Ladder CBC: I.

Spark with Nora Young, interview with Meredith Broussard on More

than a Glitch II.

The National, interview with Wendy Wong on We, the Data

III.

The Sunday Magazine, interview with Christopher Preston on Tenacious Beasts

Cosmopolitan, Broussard’s More than a Glitch was included in the 11 Best New Nonfiction Books to Add to Your TBR Pile in 2023

Design Observer: I.

Excerpt feature from Manuel Lima’s The New Designer

II.

Excerpt feature from Don Norman’s Design for a Better World

Design Week, interview with the authors of Racism Untaught Engadget:

I.

Excerpt from Code to Joy by Michael Littman

II.

Excerpt from Democracy in a Hotter Time edited by David Orr

III.

Excerpt from Writing for Their Lives by Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette

IV.

Included Stu Horvath’s Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground in its holiday gift guide

Essence, review of Jaqueline Taylor’s Amaza Lee Meredith Fast Company: Place’s Feminist Designer was included as part of “5 Essential Books to

I.

Read this Fall” II.

Q&A and review of Manuel Lima’s The New Designer

III.

Tunstall’s Decolonizing Design was included as part of “7 Design Books to Look Forward to in 2023”

IV.

Designing Motherhood was included in a list of “8 Beautiful Books to Gift Your Design-Obsessed Friend”

Forbes: I.

Included Diana Chapman Walsh’s The Claims of Life, Peter Baldwin’s Athena Unbound, and Michael Smith’s The Abundant

University on a list of the top higher education titles of 2023 II.

Q&A with the authors of Waiting to Inhale

Included Workforce Ecosystems by Elizabeth J. Altman, David

III.

Kiron, Jeff Schwartz and Robin Jones in a write up IV.

Included a mention of Groth’s The Great Remobilization

V.

Review of Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque’s Machines like Us

Fortune: I.

Excerpt and review of Jeff Fuhrer’s The Myth that Made Us

II.

Excerpt of Michael Muthukrishna's A Theory of Everyone

Freakonomics, interview with Michael Smith, author of The Abundant University Gates Notes, holiday book recommendation by Bill Gates of Vaclav Smil’s

Invention and Innovation Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, interview with Meredith Broussard for

More than a Glitch Hyperallergic, review of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg

KERA/Think (NPR Dallas): I.

Interview with Kendra Coulter about Defending Animals

II.

Interview with Lee McIntyre about On Disinformation

Kirkus Reviews: I.

Review of Writing for Their Lives

II.

Review of Worn Out

III.

Review of More than a Glitch

IV.

Review of Get Off My Neck (Spring 2024)

V.

Review of Democracy in a Hotter Time

VI.

Review of On Disinformation

VII.

Review of The Myth that Made Us

Library Journal: I.

Review of Writing for Their Lives

II.

Review of Off-Earth

III.

Review of The Phantom Scientistf

Literary Review, review of J.G. Ballard’s Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 Literary Hub: I.

Excerpt from G.K. Chesterton’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill

II.

Excerpt from Joshua Glenn’s More Voices from the Radium Age

III.

Excerpt from Lee McIntyre’s On Disinformation

IV.

Excerpt from Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette’s Writing for Their Lives

London Review of Books: I.

Review of Gerhard Richter by Benjamin Buchloh

II.

Review of Annette Gilbert’s Literature's Elsewheres

Mehdi Hasan Show/MSNBC, interview with Lee McIntyre about On

Disinformation Metropolis:

I.

Racism Untaught by Lisa Mercer and Terresa Moses and Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, Marvi Mazhar and Architekturzentrum Wien were included in the “10 Architecture and Design Books Worth Adding to Your Reading List”

II.

Review of Dori Tunstall’s Decolonizing Design

III.

Review of Cuff’s Architectures of Spatial Justice

Morning Joe/MSNBC, interview with Lee McIntyre about On Disinformation

Mother Jones, review of Green Card Soldier by Sofya Aptekar N +1, review of Fachinelli’s On Freud, National Geographic, photo feature for Chris Gun’s Inside the Star Factory Nature: I.

Review of The Age of Prediction

II.

Review of Inside the Star Factory

III.

Review of On Disinformation

IV.

Review of Ending Epidemics

V.

Review of The Ghost Particle

VI.

Review of More than a Glitch

VII.

Review of Tenacious Beasts

VIII.

Review of Worlds Without End

IX.

Review of First Dawn

X.

Review of Invention and Innovation

XI.

Review of Sharing our Science (Nature Physics)

XII.

Review of On the Trail of Blackbody Radiation

XIII.

Op-ed in Nature Physics by Erika Nesvold, author of Off-Earth

XIV.

Op-ed by Dana Cuff, author of Architectures of Spatial Justice

New Scientist: I.

Aperture photo feature from Chris Gunn’s Inside the Star Factory

II.

Major feature by Smil: “The 12 innovations we need to save humanity and the planet.”

III.

Review of Shohini Ghose’s Her Space, Her Time

IV.

Review of Igor Tulchinsky and Chris Mason’s The Age of Prediction

New York Magazine/Curbed, interview with Lynne Sagalyn for Times Square Remade

Popular Science, interview with Chris Gunn, author of Inside the Star Factory Publishers Weekly: I.

STARRED review of In Visible Presence by Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko

II.

Review of Jeff Fuhrer’s The Myth that Made Us

III.

Review of Debbie Hines’s Get Off My Neck (Spring 2024)

IV.

Review of Meredith Broussard’s More than a Glitch

V.

Review of John R. Shook’s Pragmatism

VI.

Review of Imari Walker-Franklin and Jenna Jambeck’s Plastics

VII.

Review of Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio’s The Diversity Dividend

Rolling Stone, op-ed by Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, co-authors of The Secret Life of Data (Spring 2024) Salon, excerpt from Christopher Preston’s Tenacious Beasts

Salon, interview with Lee McIntyre about On Disinformation Science Friday, interview with Prosanta Chakrabarty about Explaining Life

Through Evolution I.

Science Friday, Science Friday Book Club with Ainissa Ramirez’s

The Alchemy of Us Science: I.

Review of Lee McIntyre’s On Disinformation

II.

Review of Wendy Wong’s We, the Data

Scientific American: I.

Q&A with Erika Nesvold, author of Off-Earth

II.

Q&A with Alan Chodos, author of Ghost Particle

Shelf Awareness, review of Mondrian’s Dress y Nancy J. Troy and Ann Marguerite Tartsinis https://www.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.html?issue=1198#m22546

Sierra: I.

Review of Christopher Preston’s Tenacious Beasts

II.

Review of Kendra Coulter’s Defending Animals

The Associated Press, quote by Lee McIntyre in ongoing piece on disinformation The Boston Globe Magazine, feature by Richard Conniff, author of Ending Epidemics

The Boston Globe: I.

Review of Alison Place’s Feminist Designer

II.

Review of Dori Tunstall’s Decolonizing Design

III.

Multiple features on Steven Beaucher’s Boston in Transit

IV.

Op-ed by Russ Neuman, author of Evolutionary Intelligence

V.

Review of Wallace’s The Day After Yesterday

VI.

Review of Frank Gonzalez-Crussi’s Language of the Face

The Chronicle of Higher Education, op-ed by Michael Smith, author of The Abundant University

The Financial Times:

Included Architectures of Spatial Justice by Dana Cuff in its round up of

I.

the best summer books of 2023 in Architecture and Design

Included Moses and Souza’s An Anthology of Blackness in “Best Books

II.

of 2023- Architecture and Design” category Op-ed and review feature of Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher Mason’s

III.

The Age of Prediction The Guardian: I.

Deslandes’s The Price of Cake was featured in the Monthly Puzzle

II.

Interview with Ricard for Notebooks of a Wandering Monk

III.

Interview with the authors of Gallup by acquisitions editor Thomas Weaver Op-ed by Elizabeth Cripps, author of Parenting on Earth

IV.

The Hill, op-ed by Olaf Groth, co-author of The Great Remobilization

The Irish Times: II.

Interview with Elizabeth Cripps for Parenting on Earth

III.

Interview with Katie Davis for Technology’s Child

IV.

Review of Communications Breakdown

V.

Review of Jay Baruch’s Tornado of Life

The Los Angeles Review of Books: I.

Q&A with Nicholas Mirzoeff, author of White Sight

II.

Review of Frank Lantz’s The Beauty of Games

III.

Three pieces of coverage for the Radium Age series in January, July, and August

The Los Angeles Times, op-ed by Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, author of The Diversity Dividend The New York Review of Books, review of Peter Baldwin’s Athena Unbound The New York Times Book Review: I.

Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins from the Radium Age series was included in a list of notable 20th-century books by Black authors

II.

Review of Dori Tunstall’s Decolonizing Design

III.

Review of Joe Wallace’s The Day After Yesterday

IV.

Review of Robin Cousins’s The Phantom Scientist

The New York Times Magazine, profile feature of Matthieu Ricard’s Notebooks of a Wandering Monk The New York Times/The Ezra Klein show, interview with Erik Davis, author of High Weirdness

The New York Times/Op-Ed, guest essay by Richard Conniff, author of Ending Epidemics The New Yorker: I.

Mention of new EKS book, Plastics

II.

Profile feature of Nicholas Humphrey, author of Sentience

III.

Review of Besse’s The Great Easter

IV.

Review of Christopher Preston’s Tenacious Beasts

The Observer, profile feature of Meredith Broussard, author of More than a Glitch The Paris Review, adapted excerpt from Selected Nonfiction of J.B. Ballard, 1962-2007 The Wall Street Journal: I.

Adapted excerpt from Christopher Preston’s Tenacious Beasts

II.

Adapted excerpt from Vaclav Smil’s Invention and Innovation

III.

Review and inclusion of holiday gift guide of Stu Horvath’s Monsters,

Aliens, and Holes in the Ground IV.

Inclusion in holiday gift guide for Chris Gunn’s Inside the Star Factory

V.

Interview with Chris Impey, author of Worlds Without End for the WSJ’s

Future of Everything podcast VI.

Interview with Gerd Gigerenzer, author of How to Stay Smart in a Smart World for the WSJ’s Future of Everything podcast

VII.

https://on.wsj.com/3QRC5Sz

The Washington Post: VI.

Mention of Kalir and Garcia’s Annotation

VII.

Op-ed by Mikkael Sekeres, author of Drugs and the FDA

VIII.

Review of new Radium Age titles

IX.

Interview with Meredith Broussard

Time.com, adapted excerpt by Meredith Broussard, author of More than a Glitch

Times Higher Education: I.

Interview with Dori Tunstall, author of Decolonizing Design

II.

Op-ed by Peter Baldwin, author of Athena Unbound

The Times Literary Supplement: I.

Review of J.G. Ballard, Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

II.

Review of Parallel Public by Sarah Blaylock

Toronto Star, adapted excerpt from Waiting to Inhale by Akwasi Owusu Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah Undark, op-ed by Shohini Ghose, author of Her Space, Her Time

Wired: I.

Adapted excerpt from More than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard

II.

Adapted excerpt from Supervision edited by Sophie Hamacher and Jessica Hankey

III.

Q&A with Erika Nesvold, author of Off-Earth