English Professor Christopher Schaberg and co-author Ian Bogost were recently interviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books about their new book series, Object Lessons.

Object Lessons is a book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things from sardines to silence, juniper berries to jumper cables. Each object lesson starts with a personal story, a philosophical speculation, or a literary passage and then from there develops original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question.

Read the full interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books