Jan 25, 2021
Charlie and Katy Yocom (Three Ways To Disappear) discuss tiger conservation in India and balancing numbers alongside human requirements for life, the importance of being diligent when writing about a culture that is not your own, and what the three ways to disappear are.
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Katy's articles and essays:
'A Search for the Elusive Tigers in
India Leads to a Novel' for Newsweek
'Muhammad Ali, my father and me' for
Salon
'The Compelling Tales We Tell of
Fictional Tigers' for LitHub
Wikipedia's article on Born Free
Wildlife Trails' website
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent is a 1998 reference guide written
by Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, and Tim Inskipp
Question Index
00:51 You graduated from Spalding University
and now work there - can you tell us what you do?
02:17 Tell us about your other publications
(essays in magazines and so forth)
09:01 Tell us about the starting point for Three
Ways To Disappear
12:59 (Further discussion on the possibility of
telling the story without Quinn's narrative)
13:40 [In the context of what we're discussing] is
this where the mythical aspects of the book come in?
15:46 Can you tell us about your research
trip?
21:26 How well is the place you visited doing in
terms of numbers of tigers?
29:02 What are the three ways to disappear?
30:52 I found Sarah's romance to be unexpected;
was it always important to include?
34:11 What affect do you want your book to leave
on readers once they've finished it?
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Three Ways To Disappear:
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Photograph used with the permission of the publisher.