Lets start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f. applauding t. C. Boyle, welcome. My pleasure. Congratulations on the book. Thank you so much. I publish books all the time, every year, and i go out on the road and every once in a while somebody says, congratulations, and im wondering, for what . Its like going to war when you publish a book. No, its like giving birth, here it is. It was long awaited. No, no, the thing about this book that i thought was especially great was it took me back, truly took me back to the mid and early 90s, you know. This is a novel based on real events. Its based on the experience of biosphere, biosphere 2 in arizona in the early 90s. You have really drawn a picture that is similar to, but, in so many ways, different from the real thing. Well, thank you. When the biosphere 2 experiment first happened in 91 through 93 northeast of tucson, i was fascinated by this. Like most of the public, i clip
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