AJ Jacobs bases book on series of life experiments
Writer AJ Jacobs practices what you might call “immersion journalism” – he lives a concept in order to write about it. In his latest book, “The Guinea Pig Diaries,” Jacobs writes about outsourcing daily tasks, like arguing with his wife, to India.
He also spent several weeks attempting to follow the theory of a Virginia psychologist – that we should always speak what’s on our minds and never lie. That got him into trouble, Jacobs told KPCC’s Larry Mantle.
“My wife and I went into a restaurant and we ran into some old friends of hers from college, and they said, ‘Oh, we should all get together. Have a date.’
"And I had to say what was on my mind, which was, ‘No thanks. You seem very nice, but I have no interest in ever seeing you again.’ And they were, shockingly enough, they were offended. My wife wanted to strangle me.”
For a previous book, Jacobs spent a year living his life according to the dictates of the Bible.
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