she takes an entertaining topic and showcases its creepier side. In addition to her dry (and sometimes silly) wit, Roach has a penchant for funny voices, faking her way through interviews with expert scientists, and wheedling her way into strange locales, among them a dildo factory and under the business end of an ultrasound wand during coitus. Her most recent book, Bonk, is a romp through the current landscape of gynecology, sex research and the adult novelty industry. When Mary Roach wrote Packing for Mars, her 2010 book about the bodily experiences of astronauts in space, she seemed especially excited by the feeding, digestive and excremental issues. Her books Stiff and Spook sprung out of research done for a proposed Salon column called the Dead Beat (sadly, it was killed). Thenew book 'Packing for Mars,' by Mary Roach, arrivesat a time when the future of U.S. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASAs new space capsule, Mary Roach takes readers on a surreally entertaining trip into the. In Packing for Mars, this truly funny look at the less majestic aspects of the space program, Mary Roach shows that every activity we take for granted on Earth requires months of training for astronauts.
Writing the Health & Body column for quickened her interest in the dead - that, and looking at the hit count for her columns on cadavers. What happens after we die, anyway? How fast do cadavers rot? Can a corpse have an orgasm? Freelance writer and humorist turned accidental science journalist Mary Roach likes to ask the questions we all wonder about but are usually too polite to mention.
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