Science hits the stage with Stanford chemist and playwright Carl Djerassi.
He鈥檚 just finished reading the 鈥渟uperb鈥� Portrait of Isaac Newton by
Frank Manuel (Harvard, 1968), Philosophers at War by Rupert Hall
(Cambridge, 1980) and Rivals by Michael White (Secker & Warburg,
2001), all as background for the play he鈥檚 writing about Newton and Leibniz, the
third part of his 鈥渟cience-in-theatre鈥� trilogy.
He says his last 鈥渂elletristic鈥� reading is Thinks by David Lodge
(Secker & Warburg, 2001), one of his favourite novelists. This is the first
book in which Lodge 鈥渢respasses on science and technology and in my opinion he
does it brilliantly鈥�.
On a 鈥渟elf-promotional note鈥�, he says, he recently spent a couple of months
reading the English and German proofs of his own book This Man鈥檚 Pill
(just out from Oxford). 鈥淎s you can imagine, I read them with more attention
than all of the others.鈥�
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