{"id":444,"date":"2005-11-16T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2005-11-16T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T17:01:17","slug":"writing_in_the_open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/16\/writing_in_the_open\/","title":{"rendered":"writing in the open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/faculty\/stephens.html\">Mitch Stephens<\/a>, NYU professor, was here for lunch today.  when Ben and I met with him about a month ago about the academic bloggers\/public intellectuals project, Mitch mentioned he had just signed a contract with Carroll &#038; Graf to write a book on the history of atheism.  today&#8217;s lunch was to follow up a suggestion we made that he might consider starting a blog to parallel the research and writing of the book.  i&#8217;m delighted to report that Mitch has enthusiastically taken up the idea.  sometime in the next few weeks we&#8217;ll launch a new blog, tentatively called Only Sky (shortened from the lyric of john lennon&#8217;s Imagine  &#8220;. . . Above us only sky&#8221;).  it will be an experiment to see whether blogging can be useful to the process of writing a book. i expect Mitch will be thinking out loud and asking all sorts of interesting questions. i also think that readers will likely provide important insight as well as ask their own fascinating questions which will in turn suggest fruitful directions of inquiry.  stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Stephens, NYU professor, was here for lunch today. when Ben and I met with him about a month ago about the academic bloggers\/public intellectuals project, Mitch mentioned he had just signed a contract with Carroll &#038; Graf to write a book on the history of atheism. today&#8217;s lunch was to follow up a suggestion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22,101,164,168,171,184,192,629,752,1590,1600,2042],"tags":[2162],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-academy","category-atheism","category-blog","category-blogging","category-blogs","category-book-blog_experiments","category-books","category-experiment","category-god","category-religion","category-research","category-writing","tag-blog-blogs-blogging-books-writing-atheism-religion-god-academic-academy-research-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}