This week marks the release of Elena Passarello’s collection Animals Strike Curious Poses. It’s not a book about Prince, despite the title, but instead features sixteen essays and meditations on famous animals throughout history, creatures from Mozart’s pet starling to a mummified wooly mammoth to Cher Ami, the carrier pigeon who saved two hundred lives during World War I. The book also includes rampaging elephants, circus animals, and old-timey sideshow attractions like Mike, the chicken who kept living even after his head was cut off. Passarello, who lives in Oregon, will be in conversation with Lucas Mann.
Elena Passarello
