I asked her if she could order me a roller canary. It occurred to me that a singing bird might be company, so I went to my local pet shop to see Dolores, who keeps a lot of birds. I was lonely, plugging away in my home office day after day after day. I hope that's okay with you.Įvery month I'm going to share a little bit about what's going on with me. (Please read the book for the good stuff!) But because I do want to stay in touch, every month I'm going to share a little bit about what's going on with me. So right now I don't want to write any more heavy-duty essays. I've put into that book pretty much every heavy-duty thought I presently have about what we do and how and why it works. I stayed home from the office for weeks and, toward the end, for months at a time, behind locked doors, phone turned off, mail and papers unread, chained to my computer. I flew around the country to interview famous neuroscientists (that was actually a LOT of fun, you might be surprised to know). I checked my facts with Skinnerians, with animal behaviorists, and with zoo friends, from curators to keepers, all over the world.
I spent the better part of the last two years slogging away on that book. It's a long book, three times as long as Don't Shoot the Dog, and it's full of stories, some of which first appeared in Letters from Karen.
We'll be able to start taking advance orders for the book in late summer. It's going to be published in September by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster. Now I have written a book, Reaching the Animal Mind, about that technology and its impact.
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