Welcome to Our Head House.

This is Marianne Sanger.

And this week, Christmas week, yay.

Jasmine will be speaking with Sangamithra Ayer, or Sengu, as I've always known her. And they're going to be

talking about, among other things, Sangu's latest project, which is called the literary animal.

And it can be found on substack. And it's this amazing place to learn more about people who are

writing about animals in a pretty serious way. These are, you know, it's not called the literary

animal for nothing. And, you know, it's not called a literary animal for nothing.

And, you know, just discussing what they have to say.

And, you know, there are more and more very serious people taking animals seriously.

It's really wonderful.

Yeah, I think that Sangu is absolutely brilliant.

And she's in the flock, which is always lovely to interview someone

who's in the flock. It's extra special. It's really cool to learn about the kinds of books that are

exciting her. And I have my work cut out for me. We are going to put those books in the show notes,

by the way, if anyone's interested. I'm always looking for a new

book, and Sengu is very creative in the way she thinks about how to connect the dots with animals.

So I think you're going to greatly enjoy this interview. She's also an author herself, and I think

you talk about that a little bit as well. Yeah, we definitely do. So it is

Christmas as you mentioned. So Merry Christmas to you and to everyone listening to this who

celebrates Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. Oh, I started high, didn't I?

You always do.

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