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15 06, 2016

Switching Gears: Science to Writing
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Switching Gears: Science to Writing

Blog, Science, Writing is how we explore our place in the world

Switching Gears: Science to Writing

By Joram Piatigorsky|2021-02-27T08:55:33-05:00June 15th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Science, Writing is how we explore our place in the world|Tags: Gene Sharing and Expression, Harvard University Press, narrative, Science to writing, The Writer's Center, writing process|1 Comment

After closing my laboratory in 2009 after fifty years of research on gene expression and evolution of the eye, I turned my attention to writing and finishing my novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes (IPBooks, 2014). I had taken workshops in fiction at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, written short stories and started the novel more than [...]

9 04, 2015

My Novel, a Review, and the Narrative Nature of Science

By Joram Piatigorsky|2016-06-16T16:39:17-04:00April 9th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Jellyfish Have Eyes!, Science|Tags: first novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes, Joel Shurkin, narrative, National Academy of Sciences, Novel, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Review, Science, science as a narrative|0 Comments

Lucky me! My novel, "Jellyfish Have Eyes," was well reviewed by Joel Shurkin (thank you!) in the National Academy of Sciences website and its journal, Proceedings of the National Academy - a rare case of a first novel not lost in the vast wasteland out there. But what I think is important is that he [...]