From twenty-seven of today\'s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan ● Kristen Case ● George Howe Colt ● Gerald Early ● Paul Elie ● Will Eno ● Adam Gopnik ● Lauren Groff ● Celeste Headlee ● Pico Iyer ● Alan Lightman ● James Marcus ● Megan Marshall ● Michelle Nijhuis ● Zoë Pollak ● Jordan Salama ● Tatiana Schlossberg ● A.
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About author(s): Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of seven previous anthologies, including Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference , The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life , and In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs .
The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.
White and his book Charlotte\'s Web ; and there\'s much more.
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Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she rereads Walden
Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan
Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature
Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau\'s Concord to her native Pakistan
Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau\'s footsteps at Maine\'s Mount Katahdin
Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman
Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau\'s influence on the New Yorker editor E.
In Now Comes Good Sailing , twenty-seven of today\'s leading Writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them--and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.
A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond.
Scott ● Mona Simpson ● Stacey Vanek Smith ● Wen Stephenson ● Robert Sullivan ● Amor Towles ● Sherry Turkle ● Geoff Wisner ● Rafia Zakaria ● and a cartoon by Sandra Boynton The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden , "Civil Disobedience," and other classics.
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From twenty-seven of today\'s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan ● Kristen Case ● George Howe Colt ● Gerald Early ● Paul Elie ● Will Eno ● Adam Gopnik ● Lauren Groff ● Celeste Headlee ● Pico Iyer ● Alan Lightman ● James Marcus ● Megan Marshall ● Michelle Nijhuis ● Zoë Pollak ● Jordan Salama ● Tatiana Schlossberg ● A
