By Brendan O’Meara
“The freak-of-nature-tiger was actually a man-made disaster.” —Dane Huckelbridge (@huckelbridge)
Today’s guest for Episode 139 of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast is Dane Huckelbridge, author of No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True STory of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History, published by William Morrow.
Dane, in my opinion, is the heir apparent to the most interesting man in the world. Just go to danehuckelbridge.com and check him out. It’s the best author site I’ve ever seen. Anyway.
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If you need any more evidence of Dane’s cool, check out his Twitter handle is simply @huckelbridge. Dane has written for the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Tin House, The New Republic, and New Delta Review.
He is the author of:
Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit;
The United States of Beer: The True Tale of How Beer Conquered America, From B.C. to Budweiser and Beyond;
and a novel, Castle of Water, which has been optioned for a film.
He grew up in Cleveland. Went to Princeton. And he lives in Paris with his French wife. Happy Valentine’s Day, holy shit.
Dane’s latest book was originally going to be a chapter in a book of man-eating animals, but this story got bigger and bigger and bigger. It’s a brilliant exploration of the tiger as well as British colonialism and how the this tiger was a man-made disaster.
Let’s get it on, here’s @huckelbridge, the coolest dude living in Europe.
Thanks to Goucher’s MFA in Nonfiction for the support.
