The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Penguin Press, March 2012), by Jon Gertner, has been receiving a good deal of notice. The book was reviewed by
Walter Isaacson and by
Michiko Kakutani for the
New York Times; by the
Wall Street Journal; by
Bloomberg Businessweek; by
Slate; by
Wired; by
The Economist. A
video of his presentation about the book at Authors@Google is also available, as well as one from
Book TV and another from
The Street. A print and audio transcript of Gertner's recent interview on NPR's Talk of the Nation can be found
here and on the Diane Rehm show
here; audio of his interview with Lewis Lapham on Bloomberg.com can be found
here. The Deal's
Robert Teitelman also ran a discussion piece on
a NYT article by Gertner preceding the publication of his book.
Jon Gertner has been a contributing writer at
The New York Times Magazine, where he writes about business, technology, and society; he is currently an editor for
Fast Company.
