Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of five books of nonfiction, most recently The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. $28, 368 pages. Available here. JONATHAN SLAGHT, a modern-day knight-errant, adventures deep into the forests of the Russian Far East and returns with a magnetic Continue reading
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Losing Home
I NEVER KEPT COUNT OF ALL THE TIMES I drove from New York to Ohio. In the twenty-five years since I moved away, it’s been a lot, because home was like Continue reading
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Progress Hits Home
I can’t help it if I want to live in the past — the time forty years ago when there was still some wide-open space into which to insert some dreaming, Continue reading