Before becom­ing a writer, Anne Gold­man held a series of jobs strange­ly if tan­gen­tial­ly relat­ed to lan­guage. She dig­i­tized Adobe Sys­tem’s Times New Roman font when Adobe was a start­up (alas, with­out stock options), pruned banana trees while learn­ing Hebrew in Israel, and deliv­ered the San Jose Mer­cury News to help fund col­lege. Stargaz­ing in the Atom­ic Age, whose tit­u­lar essay was nom­i­nat­ed for a Nation­al Mag­a­zine Award, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2021. In 2022, the book earned a Sil­ver Award for the Essay in the Inde­pen­dent Pub­lish­er Book Awards.