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Laura Jean McKay on Decentering Humans in Art and in Life

Dayton Martindale 9 February 2022


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A touching and funny podcast that explores how extraordinary people have been changed by an extraordinary animal. In this weekly show, Katya talks to fascinating guests about what their lives were like before and after they experienced a soul-level relationship with an animal.

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I talk with author Laura Jean McKay about her Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel The Animals in That Country, using fiction to give voice to other animals, and how literature can help us recognize that humans are not the center of the universe–that instead we are part of a larger, in some ways scary and humbling but also more wondrous world.

Buy the book here: https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/the-animals-in-that-country-9781950354375

Read about Laura Jean McKay’s experience visiting a great ape sanctuary here: https://www.academia.edu/37308424/You_Are_Here_creative_non_fiction

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