![]() ![]() ![]() She finds a peculiar corner of the world, then mines it for stories that as strict narratives are chock-a-block with the sort of delightful surprises that are in themselves perfect examples of why non-fiction is fun to read. She’s unusual because her humor is found in enjoyably informative non-fiction. She’s one of the most skilled and unusual humorists writing today. With the help of Mary Roach and her latest book, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, the laughs come early and often. The world around us is a crime scene, and every living thing is potential lawbreaker. It is hubris, stupidity or most likely an unclear combination of the two that leads us to expect that bears, monkeys, trees, beans, insects, albatrosses, elephants – critters and veggies – will obey or even pay attention to our desires, our laws. We are often unwilling to bend to our own will. But we are absurd even by our own measure. We understand our species to be the top of every pyramid, and expect everything around us to bend to our will. Science, culture and individual personality complicate our understanding of what creeps, crawls, walks, stalks, flies and grows around us. Relationships between humans and every other sort of living being are fraught. ![]()
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