I recommended this book to a nature writer friend as a master class in nonfiction. Yes, our coastline is going under water, and, yes, it is our own damn fault, but Rush takes us readers beyond science and down to the nitty gritty humanity of it all. We meet down-and-out folks along the Louisiana coast, hard scrabble Staten Islanders, gettin’ soggy Floridians, to name but a few—and all are preparing for Noah’s flood in one way another. We also get a glimpse into different coping strategies. Good luck, some sort of Revelation is on the way.
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018
Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.
With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change…
People said I should read Rilke. I didn’t until I found an old copy of this book in a used bookstore, and I was glad I did. The book is organized chronologically, and each period of Rilke’s publication history is interspersed with poet Robert Bly’s commentary. I found Bly’s thoughts invaluable, providing context and focusing my attention. I learned that Rilke’s German God is of the swamp and the bog, not the sky. Who knew?
For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet, brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century.
This book changed the way I eat. Van Tulleken explains that he isn’t about to shame anyone. Everyone is doing their consumer best in our industrially processed-food world. He also explains that his goal is to make you sick when you encounter ultra-processed food. He is successful on both counts. For example? Check out xanthan gum which is in everything from ice cream to bread to toothpaste. Who wouldn’t want to eat that slime growing at the bottom of your dishwasher? Who wouldn’t want to eat something that is called black rot on broccoli and cauliflower? Who wouldn’t want to eat something that wears away intestinal lining. For one, not me.
We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There's a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it's wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn't find in your kitchen, it's UPF.
These products are specifically engineered to behave as addictive substances, driving excess consumption. They are now linked to the leading cause of early death globally and the number one cause…
While panning for gold, Iraq-war veteran Punxie Tawney meets Hamilton Chance, a barefoot, manic, obsessive drummer with a burning desire—to distill tax-free whiskey just like his forefathers during the American Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. The two join forces, set up shop in the rugged high desert of Washington’s Columbia Basin, and begin producing Westcoulatum Good Goddamned 1794 Freedom Whiskey. But soon their alcohol-fueled idyll is disrupted by Cherry, a.k.a. the Aphrodite of Wenatchee, and her best friend Loyalhanna, a woman so traumatized by her past that she refuses to speak to men. Plus, there’s the indigenous hustler, Sam the Man, and before long, out where “the rattlesnakes lie out in sage leaf bikinis,” the cast of quirky characters discovers that freedom is not a one-size-fits-all concept.
Drawing inspiration from the annals of U.S. history, Jeffrey Dunn's literary novel Whiskey Rebel paints a riveting portrait of characters left behind by the American dream, engaging readers in a thought-provoking tale about identity, freedom, and the ongoing pursuit of happiness.
