Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The oncologist and Pulitzer-winning science writer discusses his 2016 book about the history of genetics, and the novelist Kate Atkinson talks about her spy novel “Transcription.”

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, I'm Gilbert Cruz, Editor of the New York Times Book Review, and this
0:11.9	is our podcast.
0:12.9	For the next many months, we'll be highlighting great conversations from our Decade Plus
0:18.1	Archive.
0:19.3	We're planning a new iteration of this podcast, and as a result, we're going to take
0:24.1	a while to figure out what that might sound like.
0:26.8	Until then, we hope you enjoy these trips down memory lane.
0:35.0	Sidhartha Mukherjee is a physician, a professor of medicine, and a writer of big sweeping science
0:40.0	books.
0:41.0	His first, the fantastic, the Emperor of All Malatites, a biography of cancer, won the Pulitzer
0:46.3	Prize.
0:47.8	This month, he'll release his latest work, The Song of the Cell, an Exploration of Medicine
0:52.1	and the New Human.
0:54.4	In May 2016, Sidhartha spoke with this podcast about his book, The Gene, An Intimate History.
1:02.5	Sid, thanks for being here.
1:03.5	My pleasure, thank you for having me.
1:04.8	Let's start off with your last book.
1:07.3	The Emperor of All Malatites, one of our best books of the year when it came out in 2010,
1:13.6	continues to sell how to long after life.
1:15.6	What was the aftermath of that book like?
1:18.2	When I wrote Emperor, I didn't know what to think about, or how to think about who would
1:22.6	read that.
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