On Friday, January 24 at 7:00 pm, I will be in Washington, D.C. at Politics & Prose at The Wharf. I will be in conversation with Christopher Kondrich and Kyoko Mori about an anthology we all contributed to: Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation.

For this anthology, each writer was invited to respond to a scientific article about animal conservation. We didn’t know the topic before we agreed to contribute (mine was about jaguars). This was a fascinating project, an opportunity for various kinds of responsiveness–research, imagination, empathy. I’m looking forward to the conversation, which will be moderated by Ross Andersen of The Atlantic.