Janna Levin Shares Her BLACK HOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE via Harvard.com (11/10)
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Janna Levin, author of BLACK HOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE (Knopf), will discuss her new book at a virtual event hosted by the Harvard Bookstore via Harvard.com on Tuesday, November 10 at 7:00 pm (ET).
BLACK HOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE is an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science. Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. In this book, she helps us to understand and find delight in the black hole–perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists–illustrated with original artwork by American painter and photographer Lia Halloran. Levin takes us on an evocative exploration of black holes, provoking us to imagine the visceral experience of a black hole encounter. She reveals the influence of black holes as they populate the universe, sculpt galaxies, and even infuse the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit.
Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. She is also director of sciences at Pioneer Works, a center for arts and sciences in Brooklyn. Her previous books include Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, How the Universe Got Its Spots, and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize. She was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in New York.
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