Janet Maslin reviews Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars in today’s NYT using the apt headline, “All the Right Stuff and the Gross Stuff.”

The author is interviewed by the editor-in-chief of the NYT Book Review (which also reviewed it on Sunday), Sam Tanenhaus.

The book rose to #15 on Amazon’s sales rankings over the weekend.

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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Mary Roach Retail Price: $25.95 Hardcover: 334 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company – (2010-08-02) ISBN / EAN: 0393068471 / 9780393068474

Brilliance Audio:

• CD, $99.97; ISBN 9781441876638
• Playaway, $74.99; ISBN 9781441878960
• MP3, $39.97; ISBN 9781441876652

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