Mary Roach Interview

I read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers a few years ago after I gave it to my mother for Mother's Day. I may well be the only person on earth who gives her mother a book about corpses for Mother's Day, but she loved it, so be it. I enjoyed Roach's conversational, humorous writing style because, given such an...umm....interesting? touchy? gross? topic..it struck me as appropriate to use such a writing style. While she's humorous, you never get the feeling she's being disrespectful to her subject matter. Interesting balance...interesting book.

Roach has since written another book entitled Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. I haven't read it yet, but it's high on the "want" list.

To read her interview at Bookslut click HERE.