I remember when at the dawn of my career in science a lady I met for the first time at a social occasion deduced correctly by my name that my father was the world-famous cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky. Then, she took me by surprise by asking in a deadpan, serious voice, “Are you a failure like [...]
After closing my laboratory in 2009 after fifty years of research on gene expression and evolution of the eye, I turned my attention to writing and finishing my novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes (IPBooks, 2014). I had taken workshops in fiction at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, written short stories and started the novel more than [...]
Join Joram at the newly renovated Kensington, MD, library on June 16, 7-8 p.m., as he reads from his first novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes. About Jellyfish Have Eyes: It’s the year 2047. Deep in the mangrove swamps of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Sztein, an acclaimed government scientist, makes a breakthrough discovery: Jellyfish possess an astounding visual memory, even [...]
