Still Life With Woodpecker (1980) is the third novel by Tom Robbins, concerning the love affair between an environmentalist princess and an outlaw. The novel encompasses a broad range of topics, from aliens and redheads to consumerism, the building of bombs, romance, royalty, the Moon, and a pack of Camel cigarettes. The novel continuously addresses the question of "how to make love stay" and is sometimes referred to as a "fable-parody".
Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations
“What do Pacific salmon, British falcons, pine trees everywhere, Ifugao pigs and spirits, and Norwegian apples have in common? They perform ‘domestication’ in ways certain to change the narratives and politics of domestication for scholars of whatever discipline and for critter people all over the earth. Read this book for up-to-the-minute, deeply researched, very smart, contentious takes on the shapes of conjoined humans and nonhumans living and dying together in diverse histories of civilization, colonialism, capitalism, times-past, and times-yet-to-come. Perhaps what opens up in this book are real possibilities for caring more materially in urgent times.” - Donna J. Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
The upcoming book from Suzanne Simard, the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another.
Robin Sloan
The home page of Robin Sloan, author of the novels Moonbound, Sourdough, and Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.
The Ecology of Freedom
Murray Bookchin The Ecology of Freedom The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy 1982 Converted September 2018; footnotes, section spacing, and...
Wendell Berry spent his life farming and writing – his legacy is an ethic of care for the natural world
Every reader, farmers and non-farmers alike, can learn from his broader ethics of care, attention and negotiation with the natural world.
‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon
Experts are worried that books produced by ChatGPT for sale on Amazon, which target beginner foragers, could end up killing someone.
Social Dramas and Stories about Them
Victor Turner, Social Dramas and Stories about Them, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 7, No. 1, Autumn, 1980, On Narrative
Intellectual Loneliness
I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I'd rather read a book. The world comes to life when I'm surrounded by ideas.
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business
An Interview with Matt Haughey, Founder of MetaFilter
