What I’m Reading: Blog Piece

When I’m writing non-fiction, my reading tends be dominated by the subject in hand. I try to read obsessively on whatever project i’m writing about so that I’m completely filled up by it. When I’m in between books, as I am now, I try to read more freely, either catching up on books I’ve been looking forward to, or following possibilities that interest me. I’m currently looking into the possibility of a book on the Arctic, so I read Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams. Few people write more eloquently or gracefully about landscape and nature than Lopez. Every time I read him…

My piece for Marshall Zeringue’s excellent Campaign for the American Reader blog.   You can read the rest here

 

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