James B. Hunt details the development of John Muir’s environmental thought
…Hunt examines, his thinking about the relationship of humans to the rest of nature was not yet completely formed. Muir was endowed with extraordinary energy and irrepressible intellectual curiosity. His…
Traveling with William Gay always involves a certain amount of detours
…and lights on poles and nice landscaping. I reckon we were talking, William said. I imagine so. We’ve been half a day late on arrival. Like when we drove to…
In Dewey Lambdin’s latest installment of the Alan Lewrie series, it’s 1805, and Captain Lewrie prowls the coastline of the American Southeast in search of French and Spanish privateers
…Savannah-based scheme that supports the region’s privateers, a major coup. Like Westerns, Naval adventures in the time of wooden ships and iron men form a distinct literary genre. Nashville novelist…
Donald Ray Pollock takes Chapter 16 on a tour of the Ohio mill town where he worked for decades before turning to fiction
…much as me, almost, because she would start a question and then she’d say, “Stop. Let me reword that.” And then she might start it again, and then she’d say,…
Kay West documents an adoptive mother’s love for a tragically abused child
…had done beautiful carpentry work for Bob Oermann that I had always admired. He had done all of the cabinets for all of Bob’s trillion vinyl albums. When Bernie and…
