Adam Erlich Sachs is an esteemed author and semifinalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Having appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine, he was named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow. He has a degree in the history of science from Harvard and currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30th of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the largest... SEE MORE