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The Beautiful Ego Death of Having My Book Fact-Checked

Every nonfiction book should go through this vetting, and every author should have this experience.

The Possibility of Life

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New York TimesUnder the Henfluence: Inside the Fowl World of Chickens and the People Who Love Them

Scientific AmericanAnimal Behaviour

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Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet From Itself

The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking

Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea CreaturesAhh, what if I’ve written the world’s most annoying book!

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Jaime Green is a full-time freelance writer and editor. She received her MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia, and she has taught writing at Columbia, The New School, and the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, BuzzFeed, The Cut, GQ.com, Popular Science, Backstage, American Theatre online, and elsewhere. She is associate editor at Future Tense and series editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing. Her book, The Possibility of Life, will be published in 2023 by Hanover Square Press.