Bonnie Tsui, ON MUSCLE: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Zibby chats with bestselling author Bonnie Tsui about ON MUSCLE, a remarkable, mind-expanding exploration of the body, movement, and connection that will change how you think about muscle and how we move through the world. Bonnie shares how her relationship with her martial artist father inspired her to write this book, and then delves into how muscles shape our identity, our connections, and our shared humanity. She also recalls an intimate moment with her father-in-law, who has ALS, and shares insights from paraplegic yogi Matthew Sanford.

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1:16.9	Bonnie Tsui is the author of On Muscle, the stuff that moves us and why it matters.
1:22.0	Bonnie is a longtime contributor to the New York Times and the best-selling author of Why We Swim,
1:26.8	a New York Times book review,
1:28.5	Editor's Choice, and A Time Magazine and NPR Best Book of the Year. It's currently being
1:33.2	translated into 10 languages. Bonnie is also the author of American Chinatown, which won the Asian
1:39.3	Pacific American Award for Literature. And Sarah and the Big Wave, a children's book about the first woman to surf Mavericks,
1:46.7	and a Junior Library Guild gold standard selection.
1:50.0	She was, by the way, on this podcast before.
1:52.2	Her work has been recognized and supported by Harvard University, the National Press Foundation,
1:57.0	the Mesa Refuge, and the Best American Essays series.
2:00.2	She lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area.
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