Hello, my name is David. I am a New Orleans-based author whose nonfiction appears in The New Yorker , The New York Times , Pix.wine , The Atlantic , Scientific American , Vox , and Smithsonian , among many other places. A roundup of essays, articles, and features I’ve written can be found on my hopelessly out-of-date blog, here .
I am a member of the Circle of Wine Writers , and if you like reading, writing, drinking, or some combination of the three, you might enjoy my Substack newsletter, BAD WINO , which launches alongside a YouTube channel in 2023.
My latest book is titled THE MISSION, or: How a Disciple of Carl Sagan, an Ex-Motocross Racer, a Texas Tea Party Congressman, the World's Worst Typewriter Saleswoman, California Mountain People, and an Anonymous NASA Functionary Went to War with Mars, Survived an Insurgency at Saturn, Traded Blows with Washington, and Stole a Ride on an Alabama Moon Rocket to Send a Space Robot to Jupiter in Search of the Second Garden of Eden at the Bottom of an Alien Ocean Inside of an Ice World Called Europa (A True Stor