E440 Simon Parkin is a video game critic, journalist, author and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  He’s contributed to The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Guardian, among others. His previous book, The Island of Extraordinary Captives, is a New Yorker Book of the Year and winner of The Wingate Literary Prize. His new book, “The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice,” is the true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced impossible choices during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to prevent world hunger. We chat books, war games, food shortages, seeds and more!

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