Dance for Two, Alan Lightman
Dance for Two, Alan Lightman
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Dance for Two
Selected Essays

Author: Alan Lightman

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2018

Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams presents a collection of essays, written over the past twenty years, that displays his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into ringing harmony. Sometimes provocative, sometimes fanciful, always elegantly conceived and written, these meditations offer listeners a fascinating look into the creative compulsions shared by the scientist and the artist.

About Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman, an active research scientist in astronomy and physics, has taught at both Harvard and MIT. His novels include Einstein’s Dreams, which was a New York Times and international bestseller; Good Benito; The Diagnosis, which was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award; and Reunion. His essays have appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, Nature, Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly on October 29, 2008

Dance for Two is a collection of essays connecting the "science world" with the "art world", which are in fact always connected. For example, one essay explains how a ballerina depends on physics in order to balance and dance. The whole book emphasizes what I have believed for years - you can't just......more

Goodreads review by Claire on March 04, 2008

Beautiful writing about the world of science. Did you know most scientists and mathematicians peak in their thirties, as opposed to folks in the humanities, who usually get better as they live and experience more. Anyway, he makes physics sound like a blast--simple, fun, mystical. And yet I still do......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on July 04, 2008

Loved the marriage of science and story-telling!......more

Goodreads review by Ken on November 03, 2022

I have read a small shelf of books by Lightman starting with Einstein's Dreams and I have liked all of them. This is a collection of science-based essays. They go back 20 years and a few seem a bit dated. All of his books mix science and literature. I will admit that my favorite pieces were the most......more

Goodreads review by Doug on January 19, 2023

I found some, though not all, of these essays to be worthwhile. Lightman is insightful and a historian of science as much as an expert in physics. He speaks about the laws of nature with reverence and with awe, but also with the knowledge of one who has mastered them. I particularly enjoyed, "is the......more

Quotes

“Lightman brings his characteristic sense of wonder and awe to these concise discussions of the origins of the universe.” Publishers Weekly

“This book contains some of the best essays from one of the hottest science writers today. Astrophysicist Lightman writes with a fluid, minimalist style that hits home for many readers.” Library Journal

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