Consider the Pangolin, and Other Animals
The LRB Podcast
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The Power of Books
There are only 64,000 giraffes left in the wild. America refuses to designate them endangered. You can buy a giraffe head cushion with eyelashes still on. Talia knows Willard Price books about two brothers who go around the world collecting animals for their father's zoo. I read them when I was like eight and they had so much power over my childhood imagination. We don't ever quite grow out of that.
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