“Funny, tender, sometimes violent ... a cast of characters whose anger, generosity, pride and improbable grace make them impossible to forget.”—Christine Wicker, Dallas Morning News
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Big week at Culture Dish: Skloot and “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” on the cover of Publishers Weekly; an excerpt published; early praise from Susan Orlean, Ted Conover, Eric Schlosser, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and others; and professors respond to The Immortal Life.
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Calling all academics: If you’d like a free advanced copy of my book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, to consider it for course adoption, get thee to Random House’s academic blog and request a copy quick, while supplies last (which probably won’t be long at the rate things are going).
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Skloot will be speaking about her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa), at universities, scientific organizations, bookstores, book groups, high schools, and more as part of a grass-roots, 3-month book tour (starting 2/2/10). See her interactive tour map to help bring the story of HeLa and the ethics of tissue culture to your town.
Monday, October 5th, 2009
It’s fitting that today — the day after the 58th anniversary of Henrietta Lacks’s death — the Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to [...]
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
In a starred pre-publication review, Publishers Weekly calls The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (about HeLa, by yours truly), “a remarkable debut … a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society’s most vulnerable people.” See post for full review, and the book’s shiny new cover!
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Amazing archive of previously unseen medical images now online free via Flickr … a beautiful treasure trove.
