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THE COMPUTER KEYS fall and rise beneath my fingers, letters assembling themselves like ants on the screen as I list the matters I must attend to in the

Rebecca Franks describes how the American composer John Luther Adams found his distinct musical style by abandoning all for the wilderness of Alaska

4:05 The air holds still for a long moment until the wind picks up and the ground begins to stir.  Grains of sand shift, and soon the entire dune turns kinetic, vibrating hypnotically.  To the north, the wall of dust moves incredibly fast, covering ground at the rate of about 50-miles an hour judging by the known landmarks it passes.  Soon it will be upon us, and I can hear a steady roar in the distance long before the wind arrives.  At the last minute, Dave packs up his camera preparing fo...

  BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now. We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificit...