31 min

#182 - Susan Orlean on ON ANIMALS Books on Pod with Trey Elling

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New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Susan Orlean chats with Trey Elling about ON ANIMALS. Questions include:


Why does she feel a lifelong connection with animals? (01:10)
Why is she most interested in animals that straddle the line between domesticated and wild? (03:03)
How does someone get comfortable enough with a lion to keep it as a pet? (14:54)
What impresses her most about mules? (19:32)
Why are rabbits the only animals we keep as pets and also readily eat? (25:12)

New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Susan Orlean chats with Trey Elling about ON ANIMALS. Questions include:


Why does she feel a lifelong connection with animals? (01:10)
Why is she most interested in animals that straddle the line between domesticated and wild? (03:03)
How does someone get comfortable enough with a lion to keep it as a pet? (14:54)
What impresses her most about mules? (19:32)
Why are rabbits the only animals we keep as pets and also readily eat? (25:12)

31 min