So Mooallem ventures out into the field, often bringing his daughter along with him, in order to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures appear more real. Half of all the species may just disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that many of America’s endangered animals are only going to survive if conservationists keep rigging the world all around them in their favor. Journalist Jon Mooallem’s watched his young daughter’s world overflow with appliqued owls, butterfly pajamas, all while the real world she is inheriting slides down into a great storm of extinction. “Wild Ones” is the first non-fiction book and was released in the year 2013. Two of his favorites were Severance and Station Eleven by Ling Ma. Oddly enough, many of them were dystopian novels. While Jon wrote “This is Chance!”, he reread a bunch of his favorite non-fiction books just to see how other people write them, but mostly he read a lot of novels. NPR’s Science Friday, The New Yorker, and Canada’s National Post, among others, also listed it among their notable books.

“Wild Ones” was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a notable book of the year. It was named one of the Best Podcast’s of 2019 by New York Magazine’s and The A. His podcast The Walking Podcast chronicles each of Mooallem’s perambulations on Bainbridge Island. He has spoken at TED and has collaborated with the members of the Decemberists on musical storytelling projects.

He is a longtime writer at large for The New York Times Magazine (which he’s contributed to since the year 2006) and contributor to many other magazines and radio shows, including Wired and This American Life. He lives on Bainbridge Island, which is located next to Seattle, Washington. Jon Mooallem is from New Jersey and has lived in San Francisco, California for a long time.

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