The Book That Changed How We Think About Thinking

In 1983, four years out of college, I was living in Rochester, New York, covering part of western New York for the Associated Press. I had a meager social life, which left time for serious reading. That year, I bought a book that challenged and thrilled me. It was Douglas Hofstadter’s 777-page Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.