Sam Apple is a fan of audio books, which gives rise to a discussion about the role of the writer as entertainer. We also discuss the vocation of science writing -- something of a rebellion against his fiction-writing roots -- and the idea that writers and scientists have something very important in common, which is the search for truth.
Sam is the author most recently of Ravenous -- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection, published by Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Co. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Atlantic, NewYorker.com, and elsewhere. He is also on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins University.
