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Author T.C. Boyle lets the chimps speak their evil in 'Talk to Me'

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Saturday, October 9, 2021, 11:00am
By Adam Friedrich

Basing "Talk to Me" on the actual experiments of the '70s and '80s and using texts like Elizabeth Hess' "Nim Chimpsky" and Robert Fouts' "Next of Kin" that documented them, T.C. Boyle is primed to move past the surface level conceit of a love triangle and explore deeper philosophical questions about interspecies communication and consciousness.

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