“Who the hell is this guy writing to?” I wondered as I made my way deeper and deeper into Bill McKibben’s Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. In my […]
Eaarth: The end of the world as we know it
Chris Mackowski
Tales from the Zombie Apocalypse
They’re dead and they’re hungry. And they’re coming for us. All of us. Of course, there’s no way to really know when the dead will rise, but many experts (and fruitcakes) think […]
WordsDay Special: 25+ Books in 30+ Days (Double-Overtime)
Last batch. My exam begins in the morning. Three more books: a battlefield, a beach, and Burma.
Words are hardly "such feeble things" in Orwell's literary journalism
Orwell, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. (1937) — Orwell is best know for his dystopic 1984 and Animal Farm, but Orwell cut his chops as a journalist, and he understood the […]
Walden Sunset
Walden Pond, sunset, Saturday, 4 February 2012
A WordsDay Special: 25+ Books in 30+ Days
So I crammed all those books into my head, and as I suspected, I can’t stop. I’m still cramming, still trying to slip just a few more books under my brain. It’s […]
WordsDay Special: Well read and well grounded
After feeding twenty-six books into my head in thirty days, I’d like to say that I’m letting my brain decompress, but I’ll be honest: I’m still reading. In fact, I have two […]
The road to Hell is paved with good travel writing
#26: Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism by Thomas B. Kohnstamm (2008) I don’t know much about Brazil beyond the fact […]
The Land of Lincoln and the defense of the icon
#25: The Land of Lincoln: Travels in Abe’s America by Andrew Ferguson (2007) The Lincoln Memorial looked like frost tonight. The flurry that had blanketed the lawn white earlier in the day […]
Thomas's Travels to Hallowed Ground a ho-hum traveling companion
#24: Travels to Hallowed Ground: A Historians Journeys to the American Civil War by Emory Thomas (1987) “Historian travels to battlefields and writes about his experiences.” Sounds right up my alley. After […]
