Lulu Miller

Biography

Lulu Miller is a Peabody award-winning journalist for National Public Radio. She is the cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia and a frequent contributor to Radiolab. Her first book, Why Fish Don’t Exist, a nonfiction adventure story about obsession and loss, has just been published by Simon & Schuster. 

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ESSAYS / Spring 2020

The Grand Temptation

By Lulu Miller

Maybe Cape Cod is fertile ground for existential transformation. Something about the metals in its sandy soil catalyzing metaphysical shifts—I don’t know. All I know is I had my entire worldview rearranged when I was visiting its shores.

<i>Balistes maculatus, The long File-Fish</i>. (Courtesy Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library, Digital Collections.)
FICTION / Spring 2018

The Obituary

By Lulu Miller ,  Illustration by Lauren Nassef

When reporting on suicide, the CDC advises against including the suicide method or overly positive descriptions of the deceased for fear of causing contagion. 

Which gave Reporter Jane a problem in reporting on how her dad did what he did...