Interview
Author Interview
July 29, 2010
Mary's previous books
Media mentioned in the podcast:
- Author: James Michener
- Author: Dave Barry
- Author: Bill Bryson
- Website: Ig Nobel awards and the Annals of Improbable Research
- Author: Carl Zimmer's Parasite Rex
- TV show: Defying Gravity
- Book: Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane
- Book: Diary of a Cosmonaut by Valentine Lebedev (see where you can get this book)
- Book: Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
- Book: Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler
- Book: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- Book: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Book: Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
- Book: You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers, similar to The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
- Book: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom and The Corrections
- Book: The Aeneid
Mary Roach and I recorded this interview on August 25th. A transcript of the podcast is being crowd-sourced on our wiki.
—interview by Sonya Green