6/5/2023 0 Comments Author of stiff and bonk![]() ![]() Once she gets there, she lets her instincts take over. “I show up in somebody’s world with a very cursory sense of what they do,” Roach explained the day before her keynote speech, sitting on a couch in the lobby at the conference. She’s the author of “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,” books about human sexuality, outer space, and the alimentary canal, and her forthcoming book “Grunt” looks at ways military organizations prepare for the physical perils of war. Despite her self-proclaimed lack of credentials, Roach has earned plenty of respect, and more than a few laughs, for her growing shelf of best-selling books about quirky science. Yet her closing keynote at this year’s Power of Narrative conference kept several hundred professional journalists rapt. “I always have the sense that I’m skating on thin ice,” she says about her life as a reporter. By her own admission, she’s never quite sure she knows what she’s doing. ![]()
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