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Tom Comitta’s new novel attempts to narratively embody an ecosystem. But is it really possible to render a landscape as its own, round character?

Darwin discovered that evolution proceeds with neither direction nor purpose. The natural world is largely indifferent to plan or plot. Yet we, story-seeking creatures that we are, see the world around us as more completed, more accomplished, than what came before. Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book explores these tensions by stitching together hundreds of fragments in the history of literary writing about the natural world—this excerpt alone is a collage of ninety-seven novels ranging from Hawthorne to Arundhati Roy. Though the text of The Nature Book is a polyphonic effort of writers, ...

We go to the wilderness to test ourselves against an environment indifferent to our presence. Can this experience be re-created in fiction?

When: Lititz Borough Council meeting, April 26.

When: Lititz Borough Council meeting, Feb. 22.