Mary Roach
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Podcast Appearances
My name is Mary Roach and my pronouns are she and her.
You know, I wish I had a really cool inspiration story because I'm usually not inspired.
It's not like there's a moment of inspiration.
It's rather like
a period of random flailing.
I was just like, what about this?
I don't know.
I think this might work.
Nope, that's not going to work.
And then I move on to something else.
But what normally happens is I stumble onto something that I think is kind of cool and interesting.
It would be a good scene and a place to go.
And then I kind of build, I think, well, what would be the book that goes around this nugget?
Or sometimes there's two nuggets.
Like for Packing for Mars,
I had years and years ago for Vogue magazine of all places, because look at me, I was disturbed that I wrote for Vogue magazine.
I was a contributing editor at Vogue magazine.
It was hilarious.
I would hide when I went to meet my editors.
I was like, don't let me run into Anna Wintour.