Richard Dooling

Brain Storm: A Novel [Kindle Edition]

Richard Dooling — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:44:34 +0000

The kindle edition of my third novel, Brain Storm, is now available.

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Plain Text For Authors & Writers

Richard Dooling — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:04:02 +0000

Authors and writers of all stripes can learn a lot about creating and managing words from computer programmers, beginning with an appreciation for the simple, durable efficiencies of plain text.

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Bush Pigs: A Tale of Reverse Culture Shock

Richard Dooling — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:03:49 +0000

The Kindle edition of my short story is now free for Amazon Prime members at Amazon in the Kindle store. Originally published in the New Yorker, this harrowing tale of reverse culture shock is a cult favorite among expats who wander abroad and are unprepared for the shock that awaits them upon return to the [...]

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Rise of the Machines

Richard Dooling — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:26:32 +0000

I wrote this opinion piece for the New York Times in the fall of 2008. Since then I’ve become addicted to financial crisis entertainment and parables of the second gilded age: books, movies, documentaries, Matt Taibi in The Rolling Stone, and the incomparable Gretchen Morgenson in the New York Times business section. The gateway drugs [...]

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Congress Shall Make No Law . . .

Richard Dooling — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:49:47 +0000

Law students spend the better part of three years beetling their brows over the study of constitutional law—a mercurial, opaque, highly theoretical system of textual exegesis, which nobody but the tenured and long-winded professor pretends to understand. And the capsheaf of con-law contwistification is First Amendment law. The First Amendment protects “the freedom of speech” [...]

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The Onion: Why We Haven’t Finished Our Novel

Richard Dooling — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:11:35 +0000

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National Institute For Civil Discourse

Richard Dooling — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:57:21 +0000

My latest New York Times Op-Ed contribution is on the new National Institute For Civil Discourse. Others I have done over the years, may be found here and here.

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Lego Antikythera Mechanism

Richard Dooling — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:06:02 +0000

The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. In 2010, a fully-functional [...]

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Why Books Aren’t Dead Yet

Richard Dooling — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:29:25 +0000

I spent my undergrad years painting dorm rooms to pay my tuition and graduated from college in 1976. I then decided it was high time to get an education,1 so I set about reading all of the books that I never had time to read while I was a working student. I lined the walls [...]

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The Edge: Annual Question – 2010

Richard Dooling — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:07:59 +0000

How is the Internet changing the way you think? You mean, other than turning us into mental hummingbirds, crazy for empty-calorie tweets and sugary serial blog links? Dave Barry probably said it best: The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, ‘people without lives.’ We don’t care. [...]

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