Celebrating Publication of “Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropecene” and Remembering Dr. Paul Epstein’s “Changing Planet, Changing Health”

In 2024, I was invited to serve as a juror on a three-judge panel that evaluated 99 entries for the Works-in-Progress Awards of the J. Anthony Lukas Prizes, sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. After months of reading the book proposals and sample chapters, and many Zoom discussions among the three panelists, we announced a shortlist of…