Steve Kettmann

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Who He Was

Jul 28, 2021

For more than 20 years, my friend Pedro Gomez and I had been saying that even in our 70s we’d be laughing over stories...

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Silicon Valley Author Andy Weir Builds on Success of ‘The Martian’ with ‘Artemis’

Dec 13, 2017

Nothing Andy Weir says in his calm, understated, chuckling-at-himself voice can begin to explain how this unassuming software engineer who lives in Mountain View--just another productive drone in the Silicon Valley hive for countless years--turned out to be the One.

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Nathan Hill, author of ‘The Nix,’ Talks Writing in the Age of Trump

Jul 12, 2017

It's been building a while, the sense that the novel, far from being exiled indefinitely from the hurly-burly of relevance, was tacking back into the mix, recovered from the fashion consciousness of campus influence and other existential threats, ready to stand and be counted.