Reading Dan Frank, Book Editor and âChampion of the Unexampledâ Alan Lightman, Janna Levin and others recall the editor who shaped their work and a literary genre. Plus, more reading recommendations in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter. Dan Frank was the invisible guiding hand to a constellation of literary science writers, helping to define and expand the genre. Credit...NASA Goddard Summer is basically here, and now is the moment to find a book to fall into. I encourage you to begin with almost any book published by Dan Frank, the editor at Pantheon and Knopf who...