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James Kozubek

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Walton, The United States

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Science, Nonfiction, Fiction

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October 2016

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Jim Kozubek's writing has appeared in Wired, Nautilus, Aeon, the Atlantic, TIME, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a master's degree in genetics from the University of Connecticut. ...more

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

James Kozubek American Pastoral, Moonglow, Lincoln in the Bardo

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

James Kozubek I had read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus," and was struck by her awareness that science can be powerful, but that scientists…moreI had read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus," and was struck by her awareness that science can be powerful, but that scientists do not have a lock on reality, and in many ways, the scientists around her were losing their sense of reality. I thought her book was a fairly powerful statement on the times. The question that I set out to explore in my book was whether we rely too much on science and data as a coping mechanism. The basic message of he book is that we can't control nature, no matter how good our science gets, and its basic tone aims to be existential ("science ultimately can't tell us what to decide, how to act, or how to be"). I think of the book as an exercise, or one long thought experiment. I make few claims on how or whether to use technology. (less)

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