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QUANTA MAGAZINE: How did you manage to become both an astrophysicist and a writer?

JANNA LEVIN: I’m more surprised people become only one or the other. All kids are scientists, and all kids are artists. They all read. How is it that we give up such big things? That’s the question if you ask me. I just didn’t give stuff up.

[…]

I very much have to write to please myself. I think some popular science doesn’t do that, and I think that’s where it stumbles. If you’re not writing for yourself, you’re always being a little bit disingenuous.

Terrific Quanta Magazine interview with astrophysicist and writer Janna Levin, author of the fascinating and wonderfully poetic Black Hole Blues (so poetic, in fact, that Ben Folds set it to song). 

Levin’s book is this remarkable. 

5-9-2016
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