From Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Travels with Herodotus: “Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it exceedingly well, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn’t write down what he has learned and experienced, that what he carries within him will perish when he does. That is why it seems …
Tag: Writing
New Gorbatov
John Carlson of Prairie Ice gives us a link to new work by Vadim Gorbatov and a review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Larissa gets fired
In favor of two illiterate interns. Sometimes I despair of the magazine world. Go here to see what they are missing as she blogs on harsh truth and loving lies.
Bookplate
Reid has been after me to do this one for ages. Let’s see: here is a slice of bookcase (yes, Carel, you are in there too). Take out that black one in the center. There it is: See the bookplate? Let’s zoom in. Can you read it? When I found it in a store in …
Done and Back!
Well, not “done” exactly– there are those hundred illustrations and permissions (kill, kill!)– but I have just finished the first (pretty solid) draft of the eagle book well ahead of deadline, and can HAVE A LIFE (and a blog) again. Don’t expect too much today, but expect regular comment, links, and a lot of photo …
McLoughlin!
My old friend John McLoughlin, zoologist, evolutionist, novelist, and artist, came down to visit from his hideout in the northern mountains to visit Magdalena (always referred to as “Down Among the Wild Men”) for the first time in 23 years. He brought his three daughters and his grandson, and a fine time was had by …
Overland Journal
The first issue of a splendid new magazine, “The publication for environmentally responsible, worldwide vehicle-dependent expedition and adventure travel”, has just become available. Editors include the Alpha Environmentalist and Roseann of Three Martini Lunch . Both content and style are first- rate. This is going to be a good one.
Henry Chappell’s Home Range
Just found out my old friend Henry Chappell, who writes good novels and wrote one of the best bird hunting books I know, has started a blog, Home Range , on matters environmental and (I hope soon) sporting. I would bet that he would fit somewhere within the “Crunchy Con” philosophical group. Here he is …
Egregious– and Hilarious– Error
Do editors (as opposed to acquisitions people and Spellcheck) exist any more? First, visit Pluvi’s post, appropriately titled AAAARGH! For non- birders, the cover of The Peregrine does not show a Peregrine or even a falcon; the cover of The Goshawk shows a Gyrfalcon. Now, go here. See the long bio of Nobel Prize- winning …
Big News
The Big News that I have been promising has finally arrived. I have just signed a contract with Reaktion Books in England to write a book on Eagles for their Animal Series. For a good example of their books go here for Falcon by Helen Macdonald, our beloved Pluvialis, to whom I owe this opportunity. …