Status Updates From Serious Face: Essays

“He filled me in on a protest he was planning: During the Republican convention, he'd take one of his tigers—three of the seventeen at his home are personal pets—load it on his boat, and just sit on the river in front of the convention center: just a man with a live tiger and a big sign condemning the USDA.”

Glad to see proper Tampa Bay representation in this book

“NOAA was focused on saving an endangered species by repairing the ecology around it. But more and more, the success of conservation projects relies on a shadow ecology of human emotion and perception and luck, variables that do not operate in any scientifically predictable way.”

“I never met Randy Sloan. But as I heard these stories in the months after his death, it became impossible for me not to fixate on the unfathomability of his interior life, or anyone’s interior life, at the end — to wonder how well Sloan had come to terms with what was happening to him, how much agony he might have felt.”

Okay one essay in and I’m emotionally devastated

So far FANTASTIC.