Barry Lopez
Birth date: January 06, 1945
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Arctic Dreams, currently 1.99 Amazon.com summer special, may have won the 1986 National Book Award, but I think I have to join the dissent crowd on this (current) 4.19-rated non-fiction work. it might be a little hasty to say that standards have changed dramatically in merely 27 years, but it does s...
Lopez has a gift for language and a unique sense of the natural world -- the resulting combination creates an unusual collection of stories. Like Borges, he blends fact/fiction with a mystical bent. My favorite is "The Orrery" about a mystic living in the desert who creates the cosmos with stones fl...
This is a neat little book, I wish I could find an image of the cover online...oh well. It is an anthology meant to support the Independent bookseller and has contributions from many established writers and artists, including some illustrations by Peter Sis, a poem from Jane Yolen, stories/essays by...
I’ve been reading on this book, a dab at a time, all summer. It was the required reading for my personal essay writing class this summer. I went to look for it at B&N and it wasn’t there. I was happy to find I could download it, immediately, on my Kindle. An excellent use of my Kindle, as I could ca...
Like the "Nonrequired Reading" books in the "Best American..." series, this book has many different styles of writing, including poems, sermons, lists, and essays. I found all but one of them to be worth reading.
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