Tucson Festival of Books

Life on Our Earth


Authors Ferris Jabr and Zoe Schlanger sit with scientist Brad Story and discuss all of the wonderful complexities that led to life on earth, including the biological creativity behind plants and the confluence of rock, water and air coming together to form our planet.


Panelists
Ferris Jabr

Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of "Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life," which reviewers have described as an “electrifying” and “infectiously poetic” “masterwork of journalism” that “earns its place alongside the best of today’s essential popular science books, as well as acknowledged classics....

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Zoe Schlanger

Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She is the author of "The Light Eaters" which was honored as one of 2024's best books of the year by Barnes & Noble....


Books:
Becoming Earth
How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr
Science / Medicine / Technology
Random House Publishing Group
June 2024
ISBN 9780593133972
304 pages
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The Light Eaters
How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoe Schlanger
Science / Medicine / Technology
HarperCollins Publishers
January 2024
ISBN 9780063073852
304 pages
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