The Way of Coyote

Never Home Alone

Mark Essig is the author of&nbsp;Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig (Basic Books) and&nbsp;Edison &amp; the Electric Chair&nbsp;(Walker &amp; Co). He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Mark Essig

Urban Wildlife, Indoors and Out

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

The Secret Life of Cows

The Cow Whisperer

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Mark Essig is the author of&nbsp;Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig (Basic Books) and&nbsp;Edison &amp; the Electric Chair&nbsp;(Walker &amp; Co). He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.