This allows her to explore spots around the world or dive into the archives - wherever her curiosity takes her. Especially when the “law” Roach invokes is that of human-made rules applied to nonhumans. The book’s subtitle, “When Nature Breaks the Law,” is a stretchy enough concept to cover a variety of situations. In “Fuzz,” her latest, the subject is the tricky terrain where humans and wildlife overlap and often collide. The author Mary Roach made her reputation for witty, quirky and sometimes gross science writing in a series of snappily titled books: “Stiff” (about dead people), “Gulp” (the digestive tract) and “Bonk” (sex), to name a few. Plus, we'll discuss why killer beans and danger trees are included in a book that is mostly about stories from the animal kingdom.FUZZ When Nature Breaks the Law By Mary Roach 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.
'Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law' by Mary Roach
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