When I took up a reading of her first book, “The Butchering Art; Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine,” for review, I found myself unable to break away from it and completed the entire work well after midnight following a single sitting. Such is the power of Dr. Fitzharris’ narrative abilities.
Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris has won the PEN / E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing. for her “The Butchering Art; Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine.”
In Roxanne, the 1987 film adaptation of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, Steve Martin – in the leading male role of the a small mountain resort town’s erudite fire chief somewhat obviously named C.D. Bales – chastises his lovable but incompetent band of volunteer fire fighters upon finding a trash can ablaze inside the fire […]