PD Smith

Mission Impossible

20 May 2009 | cities, Doomsday Men | Post a comment

I have been very lax recent­ly about post­ing blogs and updates — sor­ry. My excuse is that I’ve been busy with my new book, a cul­tur­al his­to­ry of cities to be pub­lished by Blooms­bury in the UK (more on that lat­er), and review­ing. I’ve also dis­cov­ered Twit­ter and would def­i­nite­ly rec­om­mend it — but with a warn­ing: it is addic­tive! So come and say hel­lo @PD_Smith !

One of the great new con­tacts I’ve made on Twit­ter is Dr Tim Jones (@physicus) who is cur­rent­ly on a career break study­ing for an MSc in Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ca­tion at Impe­r­i­al Col­lege. He co-presents a show called Mis­sion Impos­si­ble on Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Radio and he invit­ed me on to talk about Dooms­day Men. You can stream the pro­gram here. (The inter­view is about 40 min­utes into the show.)

As I say, there are lots of fas­ci­nat­ing peo­ple to meet on Twit­ter — one of my favourite authors William Gib­son is there, dis­guised as @GreatDismal, as well as many oth­er great writ­ers, like Clare Dud­man, Fiona Macken­zie, and Thomas Lev­en­son, author of Ein­stein in Berlin, blog­gers like John Self, pub­lish­ers and agents, such as my own, Peter Tal­lack.

To quote one of my oth­er favourite authors, Nick Hark­away, Twit­ter is like a “giant pub”. So order a drink and join the big con­ver­sa­tion…

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