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- stepped away from the madness to enjoy a bit of tree time http://t.co/LkeuwHEvn0 returned to find the world a bit different. 13 hours ago
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WILD AND FREE
i’ve never read a more affecting book than jay griffiths’ wild: an elemental journey. it is the one book i would save from a house fire, and if i had time, i’d save her other books too. the greatest books i’ve ever read have somehow involved an element of luck or intuition (and judging a book by it’s cover). wild was the biggest book on scarborough library’s shelf 6 years ago when i read it. bold, sans-serif WILD emanating from the spine; i didn’t even read the description.
there are many more of these interviews with various authors on resist network’s website, these are just four by jay that i liked.
AN HOUR WITH DAVID MITCHELL
you’re probably going to see a lot from david mitchell soon, since his novel cloud atlas is about to be released in film. having read all his books, cloud atlas is by far the best, which unfortunately means his other books are getting judged on a higher level than normal. they are all excellent, but they are not quite cloud atlas excellent.
here he talks about his last novel, the thousand autumns of jacob zoet.
SOLITAIRE
between the chapters of government grievances, anti-tourism and ‘synthetic prisons’ abbey writes of his summers as park ranger in the deserts of utah. dry, desolate and unforgiving, the desert as abbey describes it is the opposite. a place to be respected and learned from, protected from the tyranny of the national parks association, abbey explores the wilderness with confidence and excitement. at times abbey rants in the way you can only do with age, and those are my least favourite aspects of this book, though i mostly agree. the rest is diary, guidebook, anecdotes and observations of one of the least explored parts of the usa.
abbey does not fear the wilderness, but embraces it’s ability to instill fear as one of it’s most endearing qualities.
