Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper

The Pulitzer Prize winner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.

By Van Savage and Pamela Yeh

For the past two decades, Cormac McCarthy — whose ten novels include The RoadNo Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian — has provided extensive editing to numerous faculty members and postdocs at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico. He has helped to edit works by scientists such as Harvard University’s first tenured female theoretical physicist, Lisa Randall, and physicist Geoffrey West, who authored the popular-science book Scale.

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