Jason's debut nonfiction work, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics' Circle Award, longlisted for the international Guardian First Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Wash ...
...is, without a doubt, Mary Roach's BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. I probably don't need to go into too much detail about it here since Mary has her own page on Red Room, and since it's getting wonderful reviews just about everywhere--check out the New York TImes, the SF Chronicle, Salon, etc. I won't be getting my hands on it until tonight (when I plan on snagging a copy at one ...
I recently had to answer this question: "You write both fiction and nonfiction. Do you see these disciplines as complementary, or conflicting?"My answer: "So many of the writers I admire--Anthony Burgess, V.S. Naipaul, Peter Matthiessen--have worked diligently in both disciplines, so I've always thought of them as interlocking. I think each informs the other. For me, at least, ...
