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Bill Wasik

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Bill Wasik is the editorial director of the New York Times Magazine. With his wife, the veterinarian Monica Murphy, he has co-written two books: "Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals" (Knopf, 2024) and "Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus" (Viking, 2012).

Wasik is also the author of "And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture" (Viking, 2009) and the editor of "Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine" (New Press, 2008). ...more

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Bill Wasik's Blog: "Our Kindred Creatures" news

Events coming up!

"Our Kindred Creatures" is officially publishing on April 23rd. We've got events coming up in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Brookline, Mass.; Washington, D.C.; and Nashville. Here are the details:

Thurs, April 18 @ 7 PM -- Community Bookstore, Park Slope, Brooklyn (with Steven Johnson)

Weds, April 24 @ 7 PM -- Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle (with Brooke Jarvis)

Fri, April 26 @ 7 PM -- Powel Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 14, 2024 12:39

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	Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik (Goodreads Author), Monica Murphy (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 13,021 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals by Bill Wasik (Goodreads Author), Monica Murphy (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 238 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture 3.29 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine 3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To his family, Pasteur remarks in frustration, "How difficult it is to obtain the triumph of truth! Opposition is a useful stimulant, but bad faith is such a pitiable thing. How is it that they are not struck with the results shown by statistics?”
― Bill Wasik

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“Some primeval force must truly be at work when the lamb can be made into a lion.”
― Bill Wasik, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

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“Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse,” pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many”
― Bill Wasik, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

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