User:Jmcgnh/sandbox/Roach-Bonk

Looking at backwards edit task. -- Instructions: Listen to podcast, listening for a tidbit about the writing of the book — rather than some fact that is in in the book — or some fascinating bit about Mary Roach herself — rather than something she describes in the book. Then, transcribe just that bit to quote on the WP.
 * prompt is this podcast episode on Point of Inquiry
 * PoI-2009-04-10
 * original air date=April 10, 2009
 * target pages for potential edits:
 * Mary Roach
 * already edited the page (twice) to clear up citation errors
 * Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
 * One user to note:
 * User talk:Misschrisparker
 * She's a bit of an SPA, all of her WP contributions seem to be Mary Roach and her books. The citation errors appear to have been hers.
 * Other possible sources:
 * While working on this, I pulled up a search on Mary Roach on YouTube and let them play. There's a tremendous amount of repetition across the ones I sampled. I'm going for ones that I only heard on the Point of Inquiry podcast.
 * Story Hour in the Library - Mary Roach
 * Mary Roach : Talks at Google
 * 10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm - Mary Roach - TED Talks

On first listen, the final question that DJ asks seems like it might be a possibility for extending the book's page. Mary's answer is about how, in studying sex, she was struck by how complicated it all was. Unfortunately, it's a fairly standard book-plugging interview, so almost all of the discussion is about material that appears in the book, only a little about why she wrote the book and how she chooses topics for books. Need to listen to it again.... --

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
 * Since it's still a short page, I'm thinking of just adding this to the lead.

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So, for the Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex page, append to the lead:

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In an interview with D. J. Grothe, Roach observed about her book tour audiences for Bonk: "It takes a while for the first person to raise a hand, but once one person has asked a question about sex, then you get ten people raising their hand and asking fairly explicit questions. And I do get the sense that it's kind of liberating for people to be able to just talk freely and ask questions using those words — it's the words themselves — I think everybody should just spend an hour just saying: 'clitoris, masturbation, penis, penis, penis, clitoris, clitoris' — just saying it over and over until it doesn't sound strange. Because eventually it becomes like any other word. And some people are there already, of course, but for some people it just feels kind of scary to say those words in a public setting with strangers." ---

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This quote occurs in pretty much the same form elsewhere, so I'm not inclined to pursue it at this point. ---

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Mary Roach
 * Something about her choice of topics?

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So, for the Mary Roach page, appended to the end of the "Writing Style" section:

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In an interview with D. J. Grothe, Roach described an aspect of how she arrives at her book subjects: "I would say it has more to do with my own sort of quirky set of interests and sense of curiosity rather than feeling some obligation to address things that aren't well enough addressed."

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