The Awareness (March 2014) is told in the shifting point of view of a wild bear, a circus elephant, a factory farmed pig and a rescued pet dog — all …
Read the review: Book Review: The Awareness by Gene Stone and Jon Doyle
Writing Wild Forming a Creative Partnership With Nature By Tina Welling New World Library, 2014 My favorite quote from Writing Wild is one Tina Welling borrows from Jesus, of …
Wayne Pacelle’s The Bond is much more than its gentle title suggests. Rather than present a quaint book about the human-animal bond, Pacelle (president and CEO of the Humane Society of …
Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior does all that a great work of eco-fiction should, addressing the issues (climate change) without sacrificing the story (a woman whose small-town world is broken wide …
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Exodus 2022 by Kenneth G. Bennett (author of the young adult novels, The Gaia Wars and Battle for Cascadia), succeeds nicely as an eco-lit foray into the thriller category set …
Read the review: Book Review: Exodus 2022 by Kenneth G. Bennett
The environmental literary journal Terrain has opened submissions to its annual contest — for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. You have until September 1 to submit. Here’s the link. I’m happy …
See the call: Terrain.org 5th Annual Contest is now open for submissions
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century by Stephanie LeMenager is an academic book and priced accordingly. In other words, this is not the sort of book you’d find in an airport …
Read the review: Fill ‘er up: A review of Living Oil by Stephanie LeMenager
The world needs more romantic comedies and more books with vegetarian protagonists and The Green and the Red (May 2014) responds delightfully. Add this to your summer reading list for …
Read the review: Book Review: The Green and the Red by Armand Chauvel
The interior section of Cape Ann, which includes Gloucester and Rockport, is called Dogtown. It was the earliest part of the Cape to be settled, and was later abandoned, so that its only occupants for many years were dogs, witches, and other assorted outcasts. It is still largely undeveloped. “Why here?” visitors ask,
Read the review: The Human Shore, Seacoasts in History by John R. Gillis
From now until May 31, the literary journal Poecology is accepting “submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with an emphasis on place, environment, or ecology.” More information
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Tim Folger, Series Editor… Science is a scary word. At least, it used to …
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