You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.ĬONAN: So you count yourself among the beta male community? I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. Thus, when the alpha males are out charging after mastodons, the beta males could imagine in advance that attacking what was essentially an angry wooly bulldozer with a pointy stick might be a losing proposition, so they hung back at camp to console the grieving widows.” And let me read an excerpt from you book: “While alpha males are often gifted with superior physical attributes, size, strength, speed, good looks, selected by evolution over the eons by the strongest surviving and essentially getting all the girls, the beta male gene has survived not by meeting and overcoming adversity, but by anticipating and avoiding it. MOORE: Yeah, well don't be too jealous, it's been raining for 35 days straight in the north shore of Kauai where I live.ĬONAN: That quick description I had of your new book skips over which is one of it's, what I think is one of it's central attractions, which is an extended discourse on the nature of the beta male. MOORE: Well I'm living in Hawaii now and basically it's just the sunscreen goes from SPF 15 to 30 when you hit spring and that's the only difference you notice.ĬONAN: You do know that, of course, we hate you. We've been talking to people about sure signs of spring, I wonder what for you denotes the change of the seasons there in San Francisco? CHRISTOPHER MOORE (Author, A DIRTY JOB): Hi Neal, how you doing?ĬONAN: I'm doing well. The author joins us now from the studios of member station KQED in San Francisco. Our e-mail address is Moore's new book is titled A DIRTY JOB.
If you have questions for the author of LAMB, PRACTICAL DEMON KEEPING and THE STUPIDEST ANGEL, our phone number is 80, that's 800-989-TALK. The obligation falls on the owner of a second hand store in San Francisco, along with an instruction manual, THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF DEATH, which explains it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.īefore we get to the climactic battle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light, light has some pretty peculiar allies, by the way, Moore expands on karma, hell hounds and the lethal qualities of the 1958 Cadillac El Dorado. Irreverent novelist Christopher Moore's new book centers on the thankless task of shepherding the souls of the newly dead.
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