A careful listener can hear a snail eating. It sounds like a tiny celery-muncher, says Elisabeth Tova Bailey in her brief, often lapidary debut, "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating," a memoir enlarging ...
Although "Invasion of the Killer Snails" sounds like the title of a 1950s horror film, it could just as well be a recent headline in a South Florida newspaper. First, a bit of history: In the 1920s, ...