![]() ![]() I’m not sure if that’s largely in part due to the sequence of events in finding out later, though less surprisingly to me, that there may have been a more subtle messages other than a main message, but all in all, there were a lot of details that were less interesting to me until we got there. Some may find that intriguing, to me it was less insightful and less appealing, in fact a bit distracting from the main themes at hand. It was multi-layered, like following along with the process about the process while the process has yet to be known as even a process and then writing about that process in its entirety along the way. Like writing a memoir about your process in writing a memoir as you wrote a memoir. So, a reading experience from that aspect might draw others into it more than me if they like stories that depict the process of learning something as the narrator is discovering it for themselves, and then also writing more about that overall process as a whole on top of that. ![]() This was all certainly valid, but I think it may offer more to readers outside of what I would find typically interesting because I found myself wanting to explore more of the why type questions, especially given the title. It was a unique take on not only the subject matter, which is incredibly tragic, but about the process of sourcing material in itself.įor me, I didn’t feel like it offered as much authority and expertise on the matter though, not discounting anyone’s personal experience, and the ways it seemed well-researched, but mostly in the way of how it was mostly surface conversation and much more focused about the author’s journey through it all, which I hadn’t been expecting. Would make for a very interesting discussion of comparison to modern day issues, advancement in technology, politics, or perhaps specific people groups such as Uyghur Muslims. I’d recommend this to anyone looking for a book that would lead to an open, honest discussion about eugenics with a focus on ethical concerns about the practices and human behavior. I read this one for Life’s Library Book Club. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist reads like a fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool -a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. Many might have given up, given in to despair. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake-which sent more than a thousand of his discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. It’s late sweet child, and there are dishes to do.A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and-possibly-even murder.ĭavid Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. It’s called Why Fish Don’t Exist and it will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2020! You can preorder my book HERE. It is a sort of terrifying fairy tale that happens to be 100% true about how to go on when everything seems lost. ![]() I’ve just finished a book that I have been working on for about ten years. From there I took a detour to study (and occasionally even write) fiction at the University of Virginia, and then came back to NPR to co-create Invisibilia with radio goddess Alix Spiegel. I somehow tricked the folks at Radiolab to hire me, and was lucky enough to be one of their producers for five years. I first fell for radio when I was a woodworker’s assistant in New York. I am the co-founder of NPR’s Invisibilia about human behavior.
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