My Books
Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing With Others (Algonquin Books, 2013)
“Stacy Horn’s book will seize your heart. It’s one part charming memoir, one part music history, one part query into surprising new findings in cognitive science that show why singing together … so fulfills the human soul. I don’t just love this book, I exult in it.” Pamela McCorduck, author of Machines Who Think, and Bounded Rationality.
“History, musicology, and memoir are the strains of Imperfect Harmony, blending together for an inspiring, soaring performance. I don’t know about her singing—she says she’s no Maria Callas—but as a writer Stacy Horn has a truly great voice.” Steven Levy, author of In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.
“… whether or not you believe in such phenomena is irrelevant to your ability to enjoy Horn’s book. It’s an exciting, immaculately researched, complicated answer to a question that has no simple answer: ‘Do you believe?’ Readers with an interest in matters Fortean will enjoy the almost novelistic style and Horn’s extensive research.” The Agony Column, Bookotron.com.
I made two videos about great ghost stories I’d researched in the process of writing this book:
Eliza Jumel and the Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Elizabeth Bullock and Bank Street.
The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City’s Cold Case Squad (Penquin, 2006).
“NPR contributor Horn’s deft writing and unique access to detectives laboring to bring justice to the many forgotten victims of murder create a significant addition to the genre. Several notches above the typical reporter’s insights into the realities of criminal justice …” Publishers Weekly. The Restless Sleep got starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.
A Leonard Lopate interview with the former commanding officer of the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad.
A commentary I did for NPR about cold cases.
Waiting for My Cats to Die: a morbid memoir (St. Martin’s Press, 2001).
“Stacy Horn, the founder of the online service Echo, had a much more compelling-if less icily highbrow-exploration of midlife crisis in Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir (2001). That endearing, humanly squeamish book plumbed not only Ms. Horn’s inner demons but those of friends, senior citizens, pets. It was 307 pages, but it flew like the wind.” New York Observer.
I made a short video to promote the ebook edition and you can view it here. I also made a downloadable version of my In Case I Croak Pet Care Instruction Form.
In Case I Croak Pet Care Instruction Form Front
In Case I Croak Pet Care Instruction Form Back
Cyberville: Clicks, Culture and the Creation of an Online Town (Warner Books, 1998).
“Cyberville resonates because, beyond helping us get inside the technology that separates us as much as it brings us together, the words of the author and of the Echoids are about the souls of people, about how they live together over time.”
The New York Times.
