What Happened to the Book Tour?

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The book didn't make the new york times, best cellar list until august. It took from april to august, there was a word of mouth situation with that book. The thing that i had worried about, that it might be offensive or inappropriate, was the thing that made people talk about it,. So i kind of relaxed about my tone. And also, and i just figure, i'm just going to do what i think is best."

Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

"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."

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