Science, Viruses, and Stories: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson
Joshua Roebke talks with Joseph Osmundson about his new book, "Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between."
Joshua Roebke is an author and historian of science with a background in Spanish literature and theoretical physics. He is finishing his first book, a social and cultural history of particle physics titled The Invisible World, which won a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant. He was an editor at an award-winning science and culture magazine, and his writing has appeared in Joyland, Scientific American, Wired, Quanta, Salon, Kenyon Review, Undark, and elsewhere. One of his articles appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and another was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches literature and writing in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Joshua Roebke talks with Joseph Osmundson about his new book, "Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between."
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