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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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	Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik (Goodreads Author), Monica Murphy (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 12,870 ratings — published 2012	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) 3.89 avg rating — 236 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 — 264 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 — 5 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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“Rabies coevolved to live in the dog, and the dog coevolved to live with us - and this confluence, the three of us, is far too combustible a thing.”
― Bill Wasik, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

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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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