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A. J. Jacobs

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A. J. Jacobs

A.J. Jacobs is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment and The Know-It-All. He has been called "inspired and inspiring" (Vanity Fair), "entertaining" (New York Times) and "hilarious" (Time). He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife Julie and their children. Visit him at AJJacobs.com and follow him on Twitter @ajjacobs.

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Christian Century, October 26, 2011
...the "my year of" conceit. Although it has produced some impressive writing—Judith Levine's Not Buying It and A. J. Jacobs's The Year of Living Biblically come to mind—this memoir trope works better with a light topic that has the ballast of...
Sun Telegraph, August 4, 2011
...from NBC Olympic coverage.” In his book, Jennings explores the interconnectedness between intelligence and knowledge, and quotes from A. J. Jacobs, the man who has read all 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, who said, “Knowledge and...
Christian Post, June 20, 2011
...because none of us is actually practicing biblical womanhood. Evans biblical womanhood project is somewhat similar to what A. J. Jacobs did in The Year of Living Biblically, but Evans is not doing it only from the perspective of a woman, but with the...
MSN Canada, March 19, 2011
...to notice changes, like a better ability to concentrate, within a couple of weeks." Consider Your Actions A. J. Jacobs, best-selling author of The Guinea Pig Diaries , pledged to quit multitasking— cold turkey—for an entire month. In his quest for...
Should Be Reading, September 15, 2011
...to try books I wouldn’t used to have tried. Books like “ The Year of Living Biblically ” by A. J. Jacobs, which I thought would make me mad, and I ended up loving! And, I have plans to read Charles Darwin’s book, too, just so I can say...