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Category: Essay

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Here’s to the Labliterati

Jenny Rohn | 31 March 2025

Soon after LabLit launched, I was approached and asked whether I’d like to preside over a new monthly book group

Two friends in a pub

Musings of a ‘lab lit sniffer’

Dom Stiles | 31 March 2025

It was ants that brought me to LabLit.com. 

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Science, they wrote

Claudine Peyre | 27 June 2021

Or rather, science they write. Seven fiction writers – Ann Lingard, Pippa Goldschmidt, Rebecca Stott, Tracy Chevalier, Jennifer Cryer, Jennifer Rohn and Rebecca Nesbit – have kindly agreed to contribute to a study focused on the relationships between science and literary fiction

Taking control of the narrative

Rebecca Nesbit | 1 January 2021

I read about the case in an old copy of New Scientist, and pinned the article to my noticeboard. My thoughts kept turning to the implications, for our criminal justice system and for the people around him.

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Fire

Our long-running series, ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’, concludes!

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"These summer reads have scientists at their heart"

Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR

"It's a great venue for aspiring authors to publish their fiction about scientists"

Interview of LabLit.com's editor on 3M Champions of Science podcast

Novels about scientists highlight passion and (sometimes) failure

Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR

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