Moby-Duck: The True story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea

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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 12:00am
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Author Donovan Hohn speaks with host Paul O'Brien about his book, Moby-Duck.

Today on Pathways we are visiting with Donovan Hohn, author of Moby-Duck: The True story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them. Donovan is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, Hopwood Awards in essay and poetry, and a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2. A former English teacher, and a former senior editor of Harper’s, he is now the features editor of GQ. He lives in New York with his wife and sons. Moby-Duck is his first book.

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