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Desert SolitaireWhen Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry...Read More
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New Yorker, February 9, 2012
...National Park, reportedly over the objections of the Coca-Cola Company, a major donor, put me in mind of Edward Abbey. Most news out of the parks does, since Abbey was such a trenchant and amusing critic of how the country’s natural wonders are...
Santa Fe Reporter, February 1, 2012
...0 Comments No Page Unturned Five essential books for understanding New Mexico There are a lot of things Edward Abbey didn’t like: dams, fences, billboards—and cars in national parks. Writing of his time working at Arches National Park, in Desert...
Alamo Gordo Daily News, January 25, 2012
...Norman Zollinger; "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday; "The Rounders" by Max Evans; Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey; "No Life for a Lady" by Agnes Morley Cleveland; "Indeh" by Eve Ball; and "Death Comes for the Archbishop" by Willa Cather. "We...
Las Cruces Sun-News, January 22, 2012
...author surname and, if an author has more than one book on the list, then alphabetically by title. Edward Abbey, "Fire on the Mountain" Rudolfo Anaya, "Alburquerque," "Cuentos," "Curse of the ChupaCabra," "Jemez Spring," "The Legend of La Llorona," "Rio...
American Spectator, January 3, 2012
...it. I used to read with enjoyment the likes of McGuane, Rick Bass, Ivan Doig, and the late Edward Abbey. No more. The so-called "New West" has undergone great changes in the last few decades. Changing demographics have shifted its politics more to the...
Rangefinder Magazine, December 6, 2011
...meanings of a place. So, I began to read what the great writers had written about the West: Edward Abbey, John Wesley Powell, Clyde Kluckhohn, Terry Tempest Williams and others. For years I immersed myself in the truly remarkable stories about the...
Princeton Packet Online, December 5, 2011
...Here’s my short list - what’s yours? The Henry’s: Thoreau and Beston (Outermost House). Edward Abbey’s anything. Rachel Carson, ditto. Aldo Leopold. Wendell Berry. Rick Bass and Farley Mowatt, the latter especially on wolves and...
Attack the System, September 30, 2011
...Goodman, Norman Mailer, Robinson Jeffers, e. e. cummings, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ursula Le Guin, William Saroyan, Dwight Macdonald, and Edward Abbey. Abbey’s novels, especially The Brave Cowboy (1956), The Monkeywrench Gang (1975), and The...
BookNAround, September 18, 2011
...Autumn has blown in with a vengeance here. One day we were suffering hideous humidity and wearing shorts and t-shirts and the following day we were bundled up in sweatshirts and long pants looking at a flat grey sky. Up until this sudden weather...
The Imaginative Conservative, September 16, 2011
...book. Find the story of grace within.Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan. The Brave Cowboy, by Edward Abbey.Elements of Style, by Strunk and White: Language is a gift with an order. The ability to create great beauty springs from that order.Short...
Commute by Bike, July 31, 2011
...the backdrop from a third-grade Christmas play. But thanks for reminding me that I didn’t pack the Edward Abbey novel I’m reading . Damn! We drove. The next morning, we were looking for a place to have breakfast in Mancos, Colo. We heard rumors...
Commute by Bike, July 31, 2011
...the backdrop from a third-grade Christmas play. But thanks for reminding me that I didn’t pack the Edward Abbey novel I’m reading . Damn! We drove. The next morning, we were looking for a place to have breakfast in Mancos, Colo. We heard rumors...
The New York Observer, July 26, 2011
...MacMillan Holdings , a book publisher with a stable of authors that includes Edward Abbey and soon-to-be New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, has signed a two-year sublease at 41 Madison Avenue , The Observer has learned. The deal, with asking...
4&20 blackbirds, June 25, 2011
...by lizard May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. —Edward Abbey Labels kinda suck. I mean, what the hell is a nature poem anyway? To say the...
