Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for non-fiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture and the natural world have been published in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction and the Iowa Review, among other publications. Passarello lives in Corvallis, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
In this remarkable collection of essays Elena Passarello traces the stories of famous animals named and immortalised by humans, from Yuka, a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, to Charles Darwin’s tortoise Harriet, a deformed goat who was billed as ‘Lancelot, the Living Unicorn’ by Ringling Bros Circus in 1985, and Cecil the Lion, shot in 2015 by an American dentist out big-game hunting. Throughout, Passarello startles us with her wit, her invention and her curiosity.
Once again, I owe so very much to Sarah Gorham and her team and I am beyond proud to run with the Sarabande pack.
I am extremely grateful to the Whiting Foundation, to the Oregon Literary Fellowships, and to the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities for their generous support of my writing. Thank you for making this project possible.
Much appreciation to the journals and anthologies in which earlier versions of some essays appeared: Passages North (“Harriet”), Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong (“Jeoffry”), Oxford American (“Arabella”) and Virginia Quarterly Review (“Vogel Staar”).
Thank you to Oregon State University’s School of Writing, Literature, and Film, especially my fellow Creative Writing faculty. Extra howls of thanks to my spirit animal, the ferocious Professor Marjorie Sandor.
I made it through this project by asking a lot of stupid questions, which were patiently entertained by my friends and colleagues: Tara Williams, Rebecca Olson, Evan Gottlieb, Clement Hawes, Joy Futrell, John D’Agata, Tracy Daugherty, Monica McFawn, Justin St. Germain, and many others I hope to remember later and thank in person. Special thanks to Randa Jarrar for her work translating the videos used in the Bab Amr Bird section of “War Pigs” and to Mark Burford for helping me with the music theory passages in “Vogel Staar.”
Many thanks to my students in the MFA programs at OSU and Murray State University, who keep me thinking.
Thanks to Jon Lewis and Irene Taylor Brodsky for saving my laptop and all my notebooks when I accidentally left them seventy miles from home on a freezing porch by the railroad tracks. Whoops.
Thanks to my family: the Passarellos, the Turkels, and Karen Horton; and thanks to Caroline Casey, Patrick Jordan, Riley Hanick, Matthew Gavin Frank, David Conrad, and Alexi Morrissey, who feel more like family every year.
Hooray for the three greatest creatures in history: Charlene, Columbo, and Sharky.
And I am so grateful every damn day for David Turkel, who doesn’t (seem to) mind talking to me about animals for the majority of his waking hours, and who guards my heart and my brain like some kind of crazed wolverine.
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