Bill Wasik is the editorial director of the New York Times Magazine. With his wife, the veterinarian Monica Murphy, he has co-written two books: “Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals” (Knopf, 2024) and “Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus” (Viking, 2012).
Wasik is also the author of “And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture” (Viking, 2009) and the editor of “Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine” (New Press, 2008).
Books in order of publication:
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus – 2012
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals – 2024
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