Thomas Mullaney

**This is an Advanced Reader's Copy. Official Release June 2026 How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information by Thomas S. Mullaney is a memoir and philosophical work that explores the nature of information, memory, and loss. The book's main themes and content include: Information and Decay: The book explores how all information that makes up our lives, from personal artifacts to genetic cues, inevitably decays over time, no matter the medium. Personal Storytelling: Mullaney uses the deaths of his parents as a framework, blending personal stories with reflections on the science of entropy and the history of information. Forging Meaning: It is a meditation on history, memory, and what it means to create meaning and history from the chaotic and fleeting data points of existence. Wide-r

Books by Katherine Faw, Alice McDermott, and Thomas Mullaney.