Millions of people in the UK and northern Europe have glimpsed the best solar eclipse in years. A great swathe of the Earth's surface was plunged into darkness as the Moon came between us and the Sun. From an aeroplane above the Faroe Islands, a BBC camera crew captured startling footage of the event reaching totality at 09:41 GMT.
A blurb on a book can be any combination of quotes from the work, the author, the publisher, reviewers or fans, a summary of the plot, a biography of the author or simply claims about the importance of the work.
That first connection over a love of words convinced Goldstein to have her editor ask Pinker to blurb her next book. Even the patron saint of teenage girls, Judy Blume, is featured on the back cover with a blurb for the book. Her first book, Poems, was published in 1944, with a blurb from Eliot, her editor at Faber. Matson read that blurb in an official press release and laughed cynically.