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Princeton University Press - Now Comes Good Sailing Writers Reflect On Henry David Thoreau - Hardcover
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Description: From twenty - seven of today's leading writers an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan Kristen Case George Howe Colt Gerald Early Paul Elie Will Eno Adam Gopnik Lauren Groff Celeste Headlee Pico Iyer Alan Lightman James Marcus Megan Marshall Michelle Nijhuis Zo Pollak Jordan Salama Tatiana Schlossberg A. O. Scott Mona Simpson Stacey Vanek Smith Wen Stephenson Robert Sullivan Amor Towles Sherry Turkle Geoff Wisner Rafia Zakaria and a cartoon by Sandra Boynton The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862) the author of Walden Civil Disobedience and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism an abolitionist and a critic of materialism and technology Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing twenty - seven of today's leading writers offer wide - ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate racial and technological reckoning. Here Lauren Groff retreats from the Covid - 19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut where unable to write she rereads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on the New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte's Web; and there's much more. The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move challenge and provoke readers today.
Title: Now Comes Good Sailing Writers Reflect On Henry David Thoreau
Brand: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691215228
Pages: 368 Pages, 2 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 10/19/2021
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: From twenty - seven of today's leading writers an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan Kristen Case George Howe Colt Gerald Early Paul Elie Will Eno Adam Gopnik Lauren Groff Celeste Headlee Pico Iyer Alan Lightman James Marcus Megan Marshall Michelle Nijhuis Zo Pollak Jordan Salama Tatiana Schlossberg A. O. Scott Mona Simpson Stacey Vanek Smith Wen Stephenson Robert Sullivan Amor Towles Sherry Turkle Geoff Wisner Rafia Zakaria and a cartoon by Sandra Boynton The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862) the author of Walden Civil Disobedience and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism an abolitionist and a critic of materialism and technology Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing twenty - seven of today's leading writers offer wide - ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate racial and technological reckoning. Here Lauren Groff retreats from the Covid - 19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut where unable to write she rereads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on the New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte's Web; and there's much more. The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move challenge and provoke readers today.
Title: Now Comes Good Sailing Writers Reflect On Henry David Thoreau
Brand: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691215228
Pages: 368 Pages, 2 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 10/19/2021
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
