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Corn Field. Courtesy of Kansas Corn Growers Association The minute hand on the clock moved from thirty-nine to forty. For the first time in recent memory, I found myself riveted, saddened a class period would soon end. I wanted the minutes to stretch out for as . . . → Read More: The Power of an Agronomist’s Language David Gessner, “My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism” Milkweed Editions 2011, 225 pages, paperback, $15
This morning when I opened my email inbox, it held half a dozen “URGENT!!!” messages informing me that “we have only 24 hours to . . . → Read More: A Review of ‘My Green Manifesto’ James Watkins, “The Woman in Black” Hammer Films 2012, 95 minutes
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“The Woman in Black” is a respectable, if unspectacular, horror film that owes its effectiveness as much to the gothic tales of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain as to twenty-first century . . . → Read More: The Haunting of Eel Marsh House: A Review of ‘The Woman in Black’ Recently we teamed up with Terrain.org to find new ways to share our journals’ unique take on place-based writing. Below you’ll find our first effort: blog swapping. Visit Terrain.org to find out who swapped with Ms. Kimble. You’ll find more provocative writing and art there, too.
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Image Credit: Fox Searchlight Director Alexander Payne’s interpretation of Kaui Hart Hemming’s debut novel “The Descendants” is excellent. But you already knew that, because the film has been showered in glowing reviews and had taken home serious hardware from the Golden Globes. The characters-imperfect, endearing, lovable, . . . → Read More: Environmental Understatement in ‘The Descendants’ As a feature of the Precipitate blog, we’ve asked contributors to write about a particular favorite piece in the current issue. Recently, fiction contributor JoeAnn Hart offered a lovely and thoughtful appreciation of Deidre Pike’s essay, “Cuidado at Isla Negra,” which explores the home of Nobel Prize-winning author Pablo Neruda. . . . → Read More: JoeAnn Hart on Deidre Pike Atticus Books 2011, 224 pages, paperback, $14.95 From the opening pages of the inventive debut novel, “The Bee-Loud Glade,” Steve Himmer explores the complicated relationship between nature and technology. The novel’s protagonist, Finch, lives a quiet life working at a fake plant company; he fills his . . . → Read More: Steve Himmer’s ‘The Bee-Loud Glade’: Reviewed “Pet Sematary” is the first book I remember reading on my own from start to finish. I had heard they were planning to make a movie of it, a movie of unprecedented horror and life-wrecking trauma that house rules dictated I would not be allowed to . . . → Read More: Where Dead is Better: The Lurid Mystique of Wild Places Copper Canyon Press 2011, 96 pages, paperback, $16 Michael Dickman’s newest collection, “Flies,” deals largely with the suicide of his older brother. With its dream-like atmosphere, each poem joins together aspects of the concrete world and the surreal. “Flies” opens with “Dead Brother Superhero,” a . . . → Read More: Michael Dickman’s ‘Flies’: Reviewed “Are you just going to throw that away?” I ask the young man in the smock and baseball cap that read Zaro’s Bakery. As I wait for my midnight train in Grand Central Station, I walk around and . . . → Read More: Dumpsters Across America |
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