In Conversation With Miriam Toews

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Despite being in full promotion for “May December”, Natalie does not forget her book club, and today she introduces us to the writer Miriam Toews and her book Fight Night. The importance of play in her own writing, and the relationship between joy and survival, fighting and the female experience are some of the topics of the chat. The link is after the jump:

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In Conversation with Ed Yong

We haven’t seen a conversation at Natalie’s book club in a while. On this occasion she has a talk with Ed Yong, author of “An Immense World”. In the video they are chatting about his ability to describe the senses of other animals we have little or no language for, like the way fish can sense the electric fields of other fish, the way touch can operate at a distance, and how echolocation is fundamentally different than hearing. The link is after the jump:

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