Alan Burdick

About

I'm a senior staff editor on the science desk at The New York Times, and a longtime magazine writer and author. I've worked as an editor at The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, and The Sciences; as a staff writer at The New Yorker, and as editorial producer and senior writer for Science Bulletins, an online news team at the American Museum of Natural History. I've also provided editing and writing services to magazines, podcasts, films, and websites on a freelance basis. I am the author most recently of "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation," published in January 2017 by Simon & Schuster. My first nonfiction book, "Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion" (FSG 2005) was a National Book Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting. My magazine writing has appeared in a wide array of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, GQ, Discover, Natural History, and Outside. Specialties: Editing. Writing. Content Strategy. Project Management.