Write Now with Scrivener

Episode 33: Carl Zimmer, Science Writer

Write Now with Scrivener

Show Notes

Carl Zimmer is a science writer, author of 14 books, is a professor adjunct at Yale University, and writes the Origins column for The New York Times.

Show notes:

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer's Origins column for the New York Times

To Beginning Writers

Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive

Bookends

Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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