{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61da34ca3a030a0012a60626/61f457d33df7cf00142abc1f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Laura Jean McKay on Decentering Humans in Art and in Life","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61da34ca3a030a0012a60626/1641827536655-67c6b4be5f9e1edb60e8906870bbf84b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>I talk with author Laura Jean McKay about her Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel <em>The Animals in That Country</em>, using fiction to give voice to other animals, and how literature can help us recognize that humans are not the center of the universe--that instead we are part of a larger, in some ways scary and humbling but also more wondrous world.</p><p><br></p><p>Buy the book here: https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/the-animals-in-that-country-9781950354375</p><p>Read about Laura Jean McKay's experience visiting a great ape sanctuary here: https://www.academia.edu/37308424/You_Are_Here_creative_non_fiction</p><p>Support us on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/storytellingpod</p>","author_name":"Dayton Martindale"}