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Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Scott Walker has had roughly a 500-year career, from hand-printing books to typesetting and designing books and then on to the internet (long live The Well) and web, and a bit back again. Currently I am marketing director for The Orion Society.



Posts by Scott Walker


Welcome to a New Literary Magazine, The Common 4/26/11

What Are Your 2010 Best Books About Nature and Culture? 3/4/11

The 2011 Orion Book Award Selection Committee 3/2/11

The View from Lazy Point 1/3/11

Your Green Abode: a Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home 12/5/10

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love 10/12/10

Dog Walks Man: A Six-Legged Odyssey 10/5/10

Noted: The Dance Boots 9/16/10

Benjamin Percy's Novel The Wilding 9/14/10

America Through the Lens of Its Company Towns 9/7/10

Celebrating an UnOILed Florida Coast 8/17/10

Climate Change, Made Personal 8/12/10

The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories 7/20/10

Just published: Bye Bye Miss American Empire 7/8/10

Really Terrific Short Video on Reading 6/30/10

Noted: Wild Comfort -- the Solace of Nature, by Kathleen Dean Moore 6/29/10

Noted: The Reenchanted World -- the Quest for a New Kinship with Nature 6/29/10

Noted: Brenda Peterson's I Want to Be Left Behind 6/23/10

Devices: The End of Reading? 6/17/10

Noted: In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise 6/9/10

Remembering Smell, by Bonnie Blodgett 6/8/10

What book launched your interest in environmental/ecological issues? 5/26/10

Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer 5/21/10

The Windup Girl Wins Nebula Award for Best Novel 5/18/10

Jamie Goldenberg on Danica Novogorodoff’s Slow Storm 4/22/10

Keri Hulme's The Bone People 4/12/10

Bye-Bye Migratories and The Snow Tourist 4/12/10

Chris Nye on The Self-Organizing Revolution 4/6/10

New Wendell Berry Book -- Imagination in Place 4/2/10

We Have a Winner! 4/2/10

E.O. Wilson's Novel Anthill 4/2/10

Marwencol 3/31/10

What Gets Reviewed and What Doesn’t and Why? 3/22/10

Book Review Cliches - and Bingo! 3/15/10

Burroughs Award to Scott Russell Sanders 3/12/10

Film Based on Sandra Steingraber’s Book 3/12/10

Joe Wilkins Orion Essay Finalist for 2010 National Magazine Awards 3/11/10

The Story of Stuff 3/9/10

OBA Judge Hal Clifford 3/8/10

Indie’s Choice Book Award 3/2/10

John McPhee's Silk Parachute 3/2/10

OBA Judge Ted Genoways 3/1/10

Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Discipline 2/24/10

Suggestion Box 2/18/10

Libraries without Books… Coming Soon? 2/18/10



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