About Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory
An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer’s yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top “mental athletes.” He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist’s trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author’s own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
- Complete Title: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 307
- Publication Time: March 3, 2011
- Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
- ISBN: 159420229X
- ISBN13: 9781594202292
About Joshua Foer
Joshua Foer
Personal life
Foer is the younger brother of New Republic editor Franklin Foer and novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. He is the son of Esther Foer, president of a public relations firm, and Albert Foer, a think-tank president. He was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Georgetown Day School. He then went on to graduate from Yale University, where he lived in Silliman College, in 2004.
Foer is married to Dinah Herlands, a medical student at Yale, whom he met while an undergraduate at Yale.
Career
Foer sold his first book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, to Penguin for publication in March 2011. He received a $1.2 million advance for the concept when he was just 22 plus a movie option.
In 2006, Foer won the U.S.A. Memory Championship “speed cards” event by memorizing a deck of 52 cards in 1 minute and 40 seconds. Moonwalking with Einstein describes Foer’s journey as a participatory journalist to becoming a national champion mnemonist, under the tutelage of British Grand_Master_of_Memory, Ed Cooke.
Foer’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and The Nation. In 2007, the quarterly art & culture journal Cabinet began publishing Foer’s column “A Minor History Of.” The column “examines an overlooked cultural phenomenon using a timeline.”
Organizations
Foer has organized several websites and organizations based on his interests. He created the Athanasius Kircher Society which had only one session featuring Kim Peek and Joseph Kittinger.”. He is the co-founder, along with Dylan Thuras, of the Atlas Obscura, an online compendium of “The World’s Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica”. He is also a co-organizer of Sukkah City.
Reviews Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Here’s the hook. Suppose you want to commit the items on your to-do list to memory because you don’t have a pencil and paper. The first five items on your list are:1. Buy a bottle of Bordeaux for…
Steve
This is a book discussing the topic of memory in-depth written by 2006 USA Memory champion, Joshua Foer. These are some of the interesting topics discussed in this book.
Memory Athletes
Memory athl…
Dr. Appu Sasidharan (Dasfill)
Unimpressive – This is a great example of how misleading a book title can be. I’d give it one and a half stars but it is just not worth two.Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art & Science of Remember…
J
Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything is a nonfiction book by Joshua Foer, first published in 2011. Foer discusses how Daniel…
Ahmad Sharabiani
Ignore the ridiculous title. Forget the hideous book cover. This is a fun and interesting read once you get past those stumbling blocks. Joshua Foer was a journalist who wrote a story on the U.S. Memo…
Diane
This wasn’t a bad book – I quite enjoyed some of it and the author sometimes had me laughing in the way you can’t help but laugh the first time you see the last scene of the very first Star Wars…
Trevor
رقصة القمر مع آينشتاين: فن وعلم تذكّر كل شيءرحلة الصحفي الأمريكي جوشوا فوير من تغطية البطولة العالمية للذاكرة…
AhmEd ElsayEd
Deliberate/cognitive practice! Sounds just like Hank Moody’s motto: ‘Constant vigilance!’Q:The brain best remembers things that are repeated, rhythmic, rhyming, structured, and above all easily visual…
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Cross posted atShelfinflictedPeople do the oddest things in the name of winning. I’m a competitive person (as are most of you reviewers out there). A few years ago I would have added the word “ver…