I find there's a certain informality in your style that's partly there's a meta element. Are you still just sort of writing for your editor now? I mean, now you have a readership over these books who, you know, they're going to run out and buy your new book. And they may have certain expectations of the things that they want in the book. Is those things in your head? What you know what a mary roach reader wants? Well, yes, only because i just picture all my readers as me.
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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