Episode 460: Mary Roach
Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest,\xa0Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.\n\n"In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have."\n\nShow notes:\n\n@mary_roach\n\nmaryroach.net\n\nRoach on Longform\n\n01:00\xa0Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law\xa0(W.W. Norton \u2022 2021)\n\n01:00\xa0Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers\xa0(W.W. Norton \u2022 2003)\n\n01:00\xa0Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex\xa0(W.W. Norton \u2022 2008)\n\n01:00\xa0Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void\xa0(W.W. Norton \u2022 2010)\n\n01:00\xa0Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal\xa0(W.W. Norton \u2022 2014)\n\n02:00\xa0"Cute Inc."\xa0(Wired \u2022 Dec 1999)\n\n12:00\xa0Roach's\xa0Salon\xa0archive\n\n\n46:00\xa0"Hot Seat"\xa0(Discover \u2022 Mar 1998)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices