Posted inDecember 12, 2011: Out on a limb

A celebration of Cascadia: A review of Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest

Open Spaces: Voices from the NorthwestPenny Harrison, ed. 252 pages, softcover: $22.50.University of Washington Press, 2011. I read Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest over two weeks, setting it down still open so that its pages made a neat tent on my coffee table, returning to it over morning coffee, between garden chores, after dinner […]

Posted inJune 27, 2011: Hydrofracked?

It’s not just a job, it’s an adventure: A review of Permanent Vacation

Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks Volume 1: The WestEdited by Kim Wyatt and Erin Bechtol 205 pages, softcover: $15.Bona Fide Books, 2011. In Permanent Vacation, editors Kim Wyatt and Erin Bechtol have assembled an eclectic collection of essays by cooks, river guides, maids, backcountry rangers and horse wranglers […]

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