Commentary
For many years I had wanted to write a book, but as a young person I thought I needed to learn about something important before I wrote about it. After working as a research technician in a few labs at Washington University in St. Louis, I ended up at the University of Iowa studying immunology and infectious disease and running experiments using a model of coronavirus infection. I spent a lot of time there writing, but not the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop-MFA-sitting in a coffee shop while discussing the finer points of James Joyce-type writing, but more the scientific paper writing that, like the former, few people read and even fewer enjoy.
