![]() ![]() ROACH:I was very surprised to learn that elephants kill 500 people a year in India. What surprised you most about the animal-human encounters you researched? GAZETTE: You cover a lot of cases in the new book: man-eating leopards, marauding macaques, run-ins with bears. Eventually I’ll land on something that seems to tick all the boxes. I think that I might be heading in one direction but I’m not finding the right variety. I’m really looking to make sure there’s going to be enough variety to keep things interesting. It’s almost like a documentary filmmaker scouting out places to go and film. The main thing when I’m looking for a new topic is that it it has to let me explore multiple things in person. ![]() I usually go through a period of kind of trying things on for size and often I’ll try on two or three kind of related things and they’re not quite right. I’m often halfway through the book before I feel confident it’s the right one. I’m curious: How do you know when it’s the right one? GAZETTE: You get asked a lot about how you get your ideas. ![]() The interview was edited for clarity and length. We connected with Roach, author of six best-sellers, including “Stiff,” ahead of her virtual Harvard Science Book Talk on Tuesday. ![]() Murderous elephants, gulls vandalizing the Vatican, and macaques that will mug you given the chance: Mary Roach’s new book, “Fuzz,” covers the strange, messy, and sometimes dangerous world of human-wildlife conflict. ![]()
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