![]() ![]() His second book is Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus, with Monica Murphy as co-writer (Viking, 2012). Wasik is the author of 2 books, his first being And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture (Viking, 2009) and, with Monica Murphy, Rabid (Viking), which was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/E. βItβs terrible that these Philly mobs have turned violent,β he said. He said the mobs started as a kind of playful social experiment meant to encourage spontaneity and big gatherings to temporarily take over commercial and public areas simply to show that they could. Wasik said in 2010 that he was surprised by the violence of some of the gatherings. This item: Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik Paperback 18.00 The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly Paperback 14.79 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. ![]() Three years later he "revealed himself as the inventor" in an eleven-part series in Harper's, having anonymously organized the first recognized examples in New York City during the summer of 2003. Yet in 2003, he claims, he was the originator of the first flash mob. "For years he was 'Bill'-no last name-who cryptically told reporters he worked 'in the culture industry,'β wrote Emily Boutilier in the Winter 2015 edition of the Amherst alumni magazine. He was a senior editor both at Harper's Magazine and Wired Magazine before becoming deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine. He served as Editor of The Weekly Week, and contributed to McSweeney's. Wasik graduated from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1996. ![]()
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