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Persons Unknown is by turns tense and tender, gripping and moving, and always beautifully written. Susie Steiner writes so brilliantly, creating characters who take possession of your mind and your heart.
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Stay in Touch Sign up. We are experiencing technical difficulties. During a trip to Red Rock Canyon, that changed. Badlands are magical places, and desert badlands are doubly so. That experience made me wonder about where the desert itself came from, and when I started looking into that, I found that—although some people have very definite ideas about the subject—nobody really knows where the desert came from.
You are considered a nature writer. But in your book, The Dark Range: Other cultures that dominated nature less had other ways of dealing with it—shamanism, etc. I think the most important thing nature writing can do is to find new ways to connect creatively with the unknown and unexpected in nature, what the old ways did so well in their time. I think science in its biological-ecological role can protect landscapes by helping us understand how diverse and complex they are, and how much we depend on them for air, water, food. An example is when Native American groups in the Klamath River watershed hire or become biologists to help conserve fish and forest, and to re-establish a native species like the California condor there.
Show 25 25 50 All. I made it through the first book in this volume. Using dramatic examples from her own journey, Christine offers real-life strategies and biblical inspiration to help us move from fear to trust in God. Stay in Touch Sign up. As the second book begins, Summerdai, or Summer as she's become known, has shed her considerable weight and turned into a beauty.
But science in its techno-commercial mode, which makes us think we can control the biosphere, is also a part of the danger. Self-control tends to be unpopular as long as people can get away with controlling somebody or something else. In Chuckwalla Land, you gracefully weave together fact with myth, legend and the classics.
How do these forms of story inform your writing? What strikes me about old mythologies is how they keep coming back into our minds despite the enormous differences between our lives and the lives of people thousands of years ago.
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They seem to have a life of their own. A lot of Bigfoot lore came from local people who worked in logging and road building, which is very hard, dangerous work and very destructive of forest and watersheds. Native American groups have very diverse and complex wild humanoid lore that seems to have evolved a similar sense of the resistance of local nature to the commercial forces that are coming to exploit it.
Composite human animal monsters are another widespread kind of lore.
For him, humanity has to be the dominator, which is a childish definition, as he demonstrates in his infantile Freudian triumphs of killing his father and marrying his mother. The Sphinx is supposed to have committed suicide in chagrin at his answering her riddle—but she had wings. I imagine the California Sphinx in Chuckwalla Land as having taken on a local form as part mountain lion, part condor, and part Bette Davis the scariest screen goddess , and established a new lair at Red Rock Canyon, which not only is a portal into the prehistory of three million years ago but into the also mythic past of the hundreds of Hollywood Western movies that were filmed there before it became a state park.
She might pose the same question as the Greek one, and we might still be getting it wrong. What do you see as the role of the nature writer in the 21 st century? Has this changed since you began writing? If Gilded Age II is fading in its turn, as seems to be happening recently, then environmental concerns may get more attention and the nature writing tradition, which goes back to the eighteenth century with the writing of Gilbert White and William Bartram, may have another upsurge.
It has always been a bridge between the sciences and the humanities, and we need bridges now more than ever, when it seems that both the humanities and the sciences are taking second place to business-as-usual. We also need writing that gives a positive, accessible incentive to protecting nature along with all the journalism about global warming, mass extinction, and other huge threats, which can be discouraging to the individual, especially in these days of rampant, corrupt elites that make everybody else feel isolated and powerless.
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