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A Diverse Reading List

rm144 wrote 3 days ago: I looked over to my stack of books and saw that I have a very diverse reading list at the moment. I … more →

Tags: Literature, Basho, Code 2.0, Crossing to Safety, Lawrence Lessig, Nobuyuki Yuasa, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Vertigo, W. G. Sebald

Ocean of Words by Ha Jin

tasersedge wrote 1 month ago: One of the best books that I’ve read in the last several years was Waiting by Ha Jin.  Something abo … more →

Tags: Art, Books, film, Life, Photography, Poetry, Politics, country of the pointed first, Crossing to Safety

Following Stegner to the end of the trail1 comment

Stephen Trimble wrote 1 month ago: I delivered what was probably the last of my Utah Humanities Council’s Public Square/Stegner t … more →

Tags: Mormon country, Everett Ruess, Escalante Arts Festival, Ken Burns, National Parks, Isotope magazine, Utah Humanites Council

Books of Impact!

jantzib wrote 2 months ago: This is a response to something I did on Facebook. My friend Hume suggested that I (and many others) … more →

Tags: Lists, Books - General, paul fussell, Favourite books, Bible, CS Lewis, Eduardo Galeano, Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip K. Dick

To feel the earth beneath my feet....

robinchandler wrote 2 months ago: Sunday morning. In the Spring of 2009, we returned to Marin County to visit what I consider to be on … more →

Tags: Vernacular Landscape, Bear Valley, cows, Geography of hope, Hog Island, Nicasio, Point Reyes Station Bookstore, Sheep, Tomales Bay

Sugar House (written for Pat) 4 comments

blackramfarm wrote 3 months ago: Sugar House ” My feet take me up the road to the gate, and through it. Just inside the gate th … more →

Tags: Friends, Places, Pondering, vermont people, writing, Arthur Perry, barr hill, Caspian Lake, Crossing to Safety

A Separate Place4 comments

coastroad wrote 3 months ago: A friend lent me his copy of A Separate Place, with text by Charles Jones and black-and-white photog … more →

Tags: photos, Literature, History, San Gregorio, Pescadero, San Gregorio Store, la Honda, Bellvale, CA SR 84

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Mark Athitakis wrote 4 months ago: Virginia Quarterly Review looks back on its early history with Wallace Stegner, including some manus … more →

Tags: Andrew Sean Greer, Mark Twain, David Foster Wallace, Ha Jin, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Pynchon, John Irving, Lynn Stegner, Russell Rowland

Sympathy for Reluctant Adopters

serialanna wrote 4 months ago: According to Wikipedia, the term Luddite refers to “[the] social movement of British textile a … more →

Tags: Luddite, HCI, Wendell Berry, late adopters, boomer, Sticker, User Centered Design

The Great Mormon Novel14 comments

Mark Athitakis wrote 5 months ago: A couple weeks back Jerry Earl Johnston, a columnist for the Mormon Times, wrote about a conversatio … more →

Tags: orson scott card, Brady Udall

Angle of Repose

annotationnation wrote 5 months ago: Book by Wallace Stegner Annotation by Kat Kambes Very eloquently written study of early California f … more →

Tags: Annotation, Annotation Nation, Kat Kambes, angle of repose, California frontier life, Fiction, Novels

Staying Put: The Gift Outright

johnepattison wrote 6 months ago: Work has been busy, and I’m still a day or two away from having time to post something more su … more →

Tags: Home, Poetry, staying put

Was Wallace Stegner America’s Greenest Novelist?

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 6 months ago: Wallace Stegner was probably the greenest fiction writer of the late 20th century. His literary repu … more →

Tags: Novels, Books, The West, Green Living, Environment, Conservation

All the Little Live Responses to the Stegner Centennial Symposium 1 comment

Stephen Trimble wrote 7 months ago: The March Symposium at the University of Utah was stellar.  A lovely potion of respect and warmth an … more →

Tags: All the Little Live Things, Glen Canyon, Home of Truth, Marie Ogden, Marion Stegner, Michael Antman, Mormon country, Music Temple, Page Stegner

sons and fathers

scott wrote 8 months ago: I read a couple of books recently that got me thinking. One is a novel, Wallace Stegner’s The Big Ro … more →

Tags: Art & Literature, Theology, Adoption, covenant theology, Paul Farmer, The Bible, tracey kidder

Light out for the Territory

Matt Ellsworth wrote 8 months ago: Courtney says I’m overdue for typing some sentences about the end of Updike. (That’s tru … more →

Tags: writing, Alan Cheuse, Elaine Showalter, Mark Twain, Russell Banks

Our first national Wallace Stegner conversation1 comment

Stephen Trimble wrote 9 months ago: Tim Egan’s column in the New York Times on Stegner’s birthday last week triggered an astonishing out … more →

Tags: Ancient Greece, angle of repose, Crossing to Safety, Kennedy Assassination, Mary Stegner, New York Times, Stanford University, Stegner centennial, The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Stegner's Centennial

Judith wrote 9 months ago: February 18 was Wallace Stegner’s centennial. He has always been one of my favorites, and in a fasci … more →

Tags: Creative Writing, Great writers, Inspiration, Writing Advice, Literature

A Biography Of Wallace Stegner

ssel wrote 9 months ago: “He came from nowhere culturally and became a writer whose books were translated into numerous … more →

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