About the Author

Nick Thorburn is a Canadian musician, cartoonist, and actor best known for composing the soundtrack for the podcast Serial and for fronting numerous bands, such as The Unicorns, Islands, Reefer, and Human Highway. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Penguins is without question a challenging, ambitious, and genuinely heartfelt work. Thorburn uses the most unlikely of anthropomorphic stand-ins to illustrate the rich fullness of the human condition.