Episode 545: David G. Brooks on The Grass Library

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

News Commentary, Self-improvement, Documentary, News, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

-This episode is brought to you in part by the Barnard Medical Center. To set up a telehealth appointment today call 202-527-7500 or on pcrm.org. -In the intro to the show, Jasmin has an interesting intersection with a Trump relative, and Mariann and Jasmin discuss Mary Oliver and what to do with our wild, precious lives in the time of social change and Coronavirus. We also continue our Supporting Vegan Businesses program by shouting out Might Be Vegan, Vegan Wines, and Brewing Good Coffee Company. -Mariann speaks with novelist and poet David G. Brooks about his new book, The Grass Library, his life-changing shift to veganism and animal-centric writing, his thoughts on anthropomorphism, and the devastating effects that Australia's recent fires had on the animal population.(26:00) -Mariann brings us the latest Rising Anxieties from the industrial animal ag world. (1:05:30)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Our Henhouse. This is Jasmine Singer. And this is Marianne Sullivan. We're very excited that you're joining us this week.
0:13.7	Marianne has a super special interview with David Brooks, the Australian author and poet, about his new book, Grass Library, and about some of the things
0:23.7	that happen to you when you become conscious about animals.
0:27.4	Yeah, I love this interview.
0:28.9	I think you're really going to love it.
0:30.5	The way he expresses things, things that we've all experienced, but he expresses them in ways
0:34.8	that I think are really special and make you see things in a new
0:38.8	light. I love the book. I love the interview. And this week on the bonus segment, which is available,
0:44.0	of course, to all of our flock members. David's going to be doing a reading from the Grass
0:47.7	Library so you can get an idea of that book. And if you're a member, you'll get that email. The Tuesday
0:53.0	after the podcast goes up with the link. You can also find it on the flock Facebook group. If you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it, you can join for $10 a month at our henhouse.org slash donate. And also as a special thank you to our flock and to our community, we're doing our flock Friday Zoom calls at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific every week where we discuss
1:12.7	some of the topics we're struggling with or want to know more about. Some of the recent
1:17.3	flock Zoom calls have included Gretchen Primac talking about poetry and doing some readings and helping
1:23.2	people answer questions about how they can also become a beautiful poet for the animals.
1:28.4	We've had a PR guru Maya Gottfried.
1:32.1	We had Marisa Miller-Wolfson talk about filmmaking and cookbook creation.
1:35.8	It's been really cool.
1:37.4	So if you're a member of the flock, then you can go to the flock Facebook group for updates,
1:42.1	or you can write to us at info at our henhouse.org.
1:45.5	And if you're not a member of the flock yet and you want, you can join it our henhouse.org
1:50.2	slash donate, as Marianne said. So before we get to the interview, I wanted to say that I had an
1:56.9	interesting thing happened the other day. I got bombarded with messages one morning.
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