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- 'Serpent-Handling' West Virginia Pastor Dies From Snake Bite A “serpent-handling” West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man had apparently watched a snake kill his father years before.
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- A dollar badly spent: New facts on processed food in school lunches In a collaboration between The New York Times and the Investigative Fund, reporter Lucy Komisar delved into the billion-dollar business of the national school lunch program and found some unsettling news.
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May 26, 2011
Rebecca Skloot Talks to inReads about Keeping Her Book Alive
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“The intrigue of this book is that it’s a science book and it’s as much a page-turner as The Da Vinci Code, says Liz Funk in her inReads Q&A with Rebecca Skloot. “It’s a thick tome but it’s also feasible to read in three reading binges because the writing is so skillful and the story so compelling.”
inReads: You went from being a respectably-published freelance writer and an adjunct college professor to a titan of hardcover nonfiction. What has this been like for you?
Rebecca Skloot: I did so much publicity on my own. I knew that because this story is so incredible, if I could get it out in front of people, people would have the same reaction to the story as I did when I first heard about it. I left my house for my self-organized book tour and I was on the road for four months straight and that was before there was any outside press approaching me. So I left my house January 29th 2010 and since then, I’ve been home a total of two or three months but not in order. I’ve been on the road and that’s been my life. I do events every day. It’s part of keeping the book alive.
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