Jory Fleming’s “How to Be Human. An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life”

Booktalk with Diana Korte · May 21, 2021 · 10m

As a child, Jory Fleming was wracked by uncontrollable tantrums, had no tolerance for people, and couldn’t manage the outside world. Slightly more than a decade later, he was bound for England, selected to attend one of the world’s premier universities, Oxford University, on a Rhodes Scholarship. Jory Fleming’s unconventional memoir is “How to Be Human. An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life.” This book was written through a series of conversations with writer Lyric Winik. Jory and Lyric exchange comments and collaborate as they examine what it means to be human from topics ranging from rethinking…