Episode 13, Tuesday, October 18, 2022

David Quammen is an American non-fiction writer and the author of 17 books about the history of science, evolutionary biology, zoonotic diseases and the outdoors. His articles have appeared in Outside Magazine, National Geographic, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and other periodicals. David Quaamen’s highly acclaimed books include Spillover, The Song of the Dodo, The Tangled Tree and his most recent work, Breathless, about the Covid-19 pandemic.

I spoke with David Quammen about his journey from fiction to nonfiction writing, his extensive field reporting practices, and the brisk pace of writing  Breathless during the Covid lockdown.