Reader’s Corner
Reveling in and discussing ideas and books, together.
Biography/Memoir
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
“SURVIVAL,” Elisabeth Tova Bailey writes, “often depends on a specific focus: a…
River House
SOME MIGHT THINK it a bit presumptuous for a person to publish a memoir when she is in her early twenties,…
Claiming Ground
IT IS FEBRUARY, snowy, and twenty degrees below zero when Laura Bell, recently graduated from college,…
When Things Get Dark
I ONCE HEARD the noted memoirist Kim Barnes claim that for a life to be dramatically whole, it must…
Farm City, & Coop
MOST GARDENERS learn about companion planting pretty early, maybe after compost but before seed saving:…
Tide, Feather, Snow
IN RESPONSE TO AMERICAN TRANSIENCE, writers like Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver describe the rewards…
An Inside Passage
IN KURT CASWELL’S debut book, An Inside Passage, you will find: a “weird love triangle,”…
Early Spring
HOW ARE WE TO SEE OURSELVES as characters—as actors—in the enormous story of climate change…
An Everglades Providence
IN 1990, on the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day, I asked author and activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas…
