Splitting Atoms With a Fork

By John Baldan

What do these places have in common: an old book-filled barn in eastern Pennsylvania, a middle school playground in the umbra of the last total eclipse to darken America, and the gravesite of twentieth-century icon Norman Rockwell? How about these: the Koussevitzky Shed in Massachusetts, the last single-screen movie house on the island of Manhattan, and immense Cologne Cathedral? They're places John Baldan has visited in the past couple of years. In this volume of essays, he describes what he saw there (and elsewhere) and how he was affected.

It's been several years since John published his first two volumes, The Going Places Club and The Magnetic Labyrinth. In this volume of essays, critical reviews, and the occasional poem, John sets his eyes on an evolving world, and brings his life's travel up to date.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HRD4LCM1
• ISBN13: 9798997655105
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Upper Right Hand Corner
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"