Canadian Geese Abortion

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"I may go the first six months of a book project not having a clear sense of what the book is even about," he says. "There'll be ow things i'm considering that, you know, i i thought would be interesting, but turn out not to make the cut" He was trying to train as an egg addler for his chapter on canada geese and couldn't find anyone who could do it. The goose abortion chapter has been abandoned because there's more egg than goose in one bucket.

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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