David Plotz: 2 books
The Genius Factory
The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice–nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank–opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a...
Good Book
The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Hilarious. . . . It’s Cliff Notes for Scripture—screenplay by Plotz, story by God. . . . In the end, though, the book is made by the spirit of the writer.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Like the Bible itself, Good Book contains multitudes—it is by turns thought-provoking,...