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A. J. Jacobs

A.J. Jacobs is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically. His most recent work is The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment--a collection of his articles, both new and previously published. He is the editor at large at Esquire magazine. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly, and is an occasional correspondent for NPR. He lives in New York City with his wife Julie and their children. You can visit his website at ajjacobs.com.

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PR inside, September 14, 2009
...collection of essays from his New Yorker columns in What the Dog Saw : . - While another popular journalist, A J Jacobs also delivers a collection of hilarious and thought-provoking explorations in The Guinea Pig Diaries. Best Book Club Bets While A...
Marketwire via Yahoo!, September 14, 2009
...curiosity returns with a collection of essays from his New Yorker columns in . - While another popular journalist, A J Jacobs also delivers a collection of hilarious and thought-provoking explorations in The Guinea Pig Diaries. Best Book Club Bets While...
Examiner.com, June 29, 2009
...A. J. Jacobs is a know-it-all. No, really ?he is. He wrote a memoir called The Know-It-All in which he details his account of reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from its first...
National Post, June 17, 2009
...of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything fame spoke two weeks ago at the ROM, and A. J. Jacobs, who lived following every commandment in the Bible for a year and wrote The Year of Living Biblically about it, spoke last Tuesday. The series is...
Toronto Star Online, June 6, 2009
...It comes as news to A. J. Jacobs â' the A is for Arnold, the J for, uh, Stephen (don't ask) â' that the Royal Ontario Museum, deeming 21st-century life too fraught for the original...
U-Wire.com, March 19, 2009
...assumed I was fleeing Brown,' he said. The idea for the project came when Roose was interning for A. J. Jacobs '90 and the two visited Liberty founder Jerry Falwell's famous church as part of Jacobs' book, 'The Year of Living Biblically.' There, Roose...
BoxOfficeProphets, December 30, 2008
...a year making every recipe from a Julia Child cookbook and out came Julie & Julia. More recently, A. J. Jacobs spent a year following the Bible as closely as possible, resulting in The Year of Living Biblically. With Yes Man, Danny Wallace chose a...
BoxOfficeProphets, December 30, 2008
...a year making every recipe from a Julia Child cookbook and out came Julie & Julia. More recently, A. J. Jacobs spent a year following the Bible as closely as possible, resulting in The Year of Living Biblically. With Yes Man, Danny Wallace chose a...
DarienLibrary.org - It's for You!, October 3, 2009
...Tomorrow at the Library OUR FALL AUTHOR SERIES BEGINS! Meet the Author - A. J. Jacobs, author of The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment 5:30 p.m. - In the Community Room (A book signing and reception will follow...
DarienLibrary.org - It's for You!, October 3, 2009
...Today at the Library OUR FALL AUTHOR SERIES BEGINS! Meet the Author - A. J. Jacobs, author of The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment 5:30 p.m. - In the Community Room (A book signing and reception will follow...
readerbuzz, September 20, 2009
...my reviews: Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene Zeitoun by Dave Eggers The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami These four push me over the two hundred mark for books read this year. And they leave me...
Compulsive Overreader, September 2, 2009
...Even though I hold A.J. Jacobs largely responsible for spawning an entire sub-genre of non-fiction (people who do something odd for a year and then blog and/or write a book about it), I have...
Books Lists Life, June 9, 2009
...I'm not sure.) Here are the options: From my own shelves: The Year of Living Biblically by A J Jacobs From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris Just Listen by Sarah Dessen In the Woods by Tana French The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory From the library...
Shhh I'm Reading..., May 2, 2009
...Sourcebooks -- The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs from Bookmooch Thursday: -- First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure...
The Girl from the Ghetto, April 30, 2009
...about my tv show LOST, or tell you about this great book I’m reading, The Know-It-All , by A. J. Jacobs; or this funny story how some lady brought my hubby water in the gym because he’s cute and then he got all embarrased when we ran into her...
ysmarko, March 25, 2009
...The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World , by A. J. Jacobs i picked up a.j. jacobs’ “the year of living biblically” ( my review ) way after most people had read it, and totally loved it. so i decided to...