James Gleick

James Gleick, the author most recently of Isaac Newton, is working on a book about information. (December 2008)?

From the Review

December 18, 2008: 'If Shakespeare Had Been Able to Google...'

Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory by Roy Blount Jr.

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea

The First English Dictionary, 1604 by Robert Cawdrey, with an introduction by John Simpson