John Colapinto has written two novels, About the Author (2001) and Undone (2015), which was initially rejected by over 40 publishers who were freaked out by it’s forbidden subject-matter. In 2000, he published As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (2000), about the tragic case of David Reimer, who had undergone a sex change in infancy following a botched circumcision. John’s also written hundreds of millions of articles for various magazines, ranging from Rolling Stone to The New Yorker(where he was a staff writer for years). He first came to my attention via his fantastic article about the Pirahã people (an Amazonian tribe), which you can read here.
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Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Outro: “Feel Good, Inc.,” by Gorillaz.
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