What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Plus, we’ll discuss why killer beans and danger trees are included in a book that is mostly about stories from the animal kingdom.A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 We’ll talk with her about how the book impacted how she interacts with animals in her day-to-day life. Mary returns to Bullseye to talk about her latest book. Gulls that eat papal flower arrangements. It’s a book about how humans have tried – and failed to manage nature.īears that break into dumpsters. Mary’s newest book is called Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law. In Stiff, it’s an examination of how we as a society have interacted with cadavers: past, present and future. In Grunt, it’s the science of war, and how soldiers on the battlefield are kept alive. Mary’s passion and humor leave you just as wrapped up in them as she is. The things she obsesses over can seem weird or gross or marginal.
She’s a very particular kind of science writer. Mary covers science in a very particular way – she finds branches of research that don’t often make it into newspapers. Most of them have one-syllable titles: Grunt. Mary Roach is the author of nine books, all of them nonfiction.
Mary Roach on what happens when animals break the law, killer beans, danger trees and more
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