Review: Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard NONFICTION: Finding the Mother Tree illuminates the career of one of our most brilliant ecologists.
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Episodes of the cult television series Twin Peaks (1990-91) featured monologues with the enigmatic Log Lady, played to deadpan perfection by actress Catherine Coulson. She would cradle a cut of Ponderosa pine like a baby, channeling its koans. As a forester, biologist and ecological activist, Suzanne Simard is a real-life tree whisperer, and the trees whisper back. Finding the Mother Tree a luminous weave of memoir, scientific treatise and Nativ
Celeste Ng: The WD Interview
The former WD reader talks about creating dynamic characters and outlining her sensation, Little Fires Everywhere in this interview from the November/December 2020 issue of Writer s Digest.
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Writer’s Digest when she was 12 or 13 years old.
“For someone that was growing up in the suburbs, a teenage girl, it was this whole window into this world that I had never seen before,” she says. “It was so fantastic to go,
Oh, there are people who also care about this. And they’re out there. And they’re writing about it, and they’re talking about it, and I can have this window into their lives, too.”
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Novelist Esi Edugyan to speak during Victor Valley College s online Speaker Series Thursday
Public invited to hear the author discusses her historical novel, Washington Black, which the New York Times named one of the 10 best books of 2018
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Victor Valley College invites the community to tune in for a free online event featuring bestselling Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Those interested can listen in by visiting the VVC website at www.vvc.edu, where the lecture will be livestreamed. This event is part of the “Speaker Series put on by VVC’s One Book One College (OBOC) program.
The McDonough County Voice
Shortly before Earth Day (April 22), I prepared and delivered a computer-based (i.e., Zoom) program for Springfield-area residents on nature writer and historian Virginia Eifert (1911-1966). Her many books, articles, and art works are in a collection at the WIU Library Archives, and I have written about her vision and achievement several times, starting in 1978. She promoted awareness of, and appreciation for, nature throughout her life.
Eifert also spoke out for environmental preservation, asserting that “we must save what is left [of nature] before there is nothing left to save.” While I was discussing her work as a writer and artist focused on the natural world, for that online program, I couldn’t help thinking that she would be appalled by the vast damage to the natural world that is increasingly evident today and threatens our very existence.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.