Zeritsky's Law By Ann Griffith

Podcast: Auditory Anthology · Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

When a Los Angeles housewife’s cat accidentally freezes solid in her deep-freeze and thaws out completely unharmed, it sparks a bizarre new industry: quick-freezing human beings, for a fee, until they’re ready to be defrosted. From fleeing criminals to lovesick husbands, Ann Griffith spins a wickedly satirical history of the business that grows up around it — and the law that finally shuts it all down. Ann Warren Griffith (1918–1983) was an American writer best known for her humorous essays in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and for her collection Who Is Hiding in My Hide-a-B...