This review by @jenszalai of The Impossible Man in today’s @nytimes captures so much of what I hoped to accomplish with this book. I am humbled. @BasicBooks nytimes.com/2024/11/13/books…

Many thanks to Editorial Critica for publishing this edition of The Impossible Man.

A reminder I'll be reading at LaHave River Books this afternoon at 4:00. I hope you can drop by!

Author @PatchenBarss will be at LaHave River Books on August 16 to talk about THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN. Join the conversation in person!. #LaHaveNS

"We continue casting ourselves in the theater of rationality, only to find ourselves bewildered again and again by our own nature," writes Maria Popova in @themarginalian. I simultaneously embrace and resist this idea, which is maybe part of the point? themarginalian.org/?mc_cid=4…

Whenever I have pressed the case that John von Neumann should be considered the father of the modern stored-program computer ie the one that nearly everyone uses and carries around in their pockets, I've been met with hurt rebukes. These rebukes are sometimes based on scholarship (sadly, out of date) but mostly these outraged critics base their opinions on what they read on the Internet and some fairly sloppy pop histories. So let's lay out von Neumann's claim properly, as I have not seen it done elsewhere. The argument has three strands: 1. An idea 2. A principle 3. A machine

The Impossible Man noted in the @NewYorker. @AtlanticBooks @BasicBooks

Thank you for voicing it, Jonathan! @NarratorSpy

THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN by @PatchenBarss has made an astounding impression on reviewers! This book depicts the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose in "multiple dimensions." (@nytimes) Thank you @KirkusReviews, @Telegraph, @FinancialTimes, @globeandmail!