![]() ![]() In the meantime, here are the books to get you started with Mary Roach’s work and start viewing the world in a new way. Her next book, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, about the intersection of humans and animals, comes out in September and I cannot wait to get my paws on it. I’m discovering all of this stuff with them at the same time, this feeling of ‘holy shit, I cannot believe that!’” If you read even a single chapter of one of her books, it’s easy to see her unabashed love and fascination for the weirdness of human existence. ![]() ![]() In a 2013 interview with The Verge, she said she goes into each book topic without much prior knowledge: “I come into a book with the same sense of awe as my readers. Though Bonk was my introduction to Mary’s world, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife came before it. It turned out the science stories I was assigned were meatier and more interesting than any of the others, she says. The 62-year-old bestselling science writer didn’t intend to become a science writer, though. Then, quite unexpectedly, she found herself smitten with science. Her humor and love of fart jokes make the seemingly hard science-y subjects more down-to-earth for us, uh, not science-y people. She interviews experts, reviews the scientific literature, partakes in any experiments or tests as she can, and has some of the snarkiest footnotes I’ve ever seen. She takes a strange or taboo or controversial topic - cadavers, sex, war, digestion, the afterlife - and dives real deep. Mary Roach is hands down the best nonfiction writer alive today. ![]()
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