Why Time Flies

Why Time Flies is the funny, surprising, often moving, and always insightful story of one man''s effort to master his internal clocks. In form, it is also a mixture of science reportage, essay, and cultural critique. Make no mistake, you''ll never look at a clock the same way again.

Alan Burdick is a staff writer and former senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to Elements, the magazine’s science-and-tech blog. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, GQ, Discover, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere. His first book, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting.