I hope this isn’t annoying or redundant, but some folks only occasionally check in to the updates of the BookNotes blog at our website, but may not check the longer “columns” that I post from time to time.  I wanted to tell a few stories about how we cooked up the idea for my new book, share how we curated, selected, and edited them, and thank people involved — mostly Ned Bustard of Square Halo Books and my wife and partner in this project, Beth.  It wasn’t exactly a review of the book, which I had already done at BookNotes, but offered a bit about the writing process that I thought you might enjoy. So I did that as an extended column, posting it there, rather than as BookNotes blog post.