Feb 26, 2019
'Don’t shine. Don’t seek to shine. Burn.' (Richard Mitchell)
Brian Kimberling, on the best writing advice; read the rest of this week’s Ten Questions at pw.org!
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'Don’t shine. Don’t seek to shine. Burn.' (Richard Mitchell)
Brian Kimberling, on the best writing advice; read the rest of this week’s Ten Questions at pw.org!
Happy National Audubon Day! Enjoy the sunshine, fresh air and Mother Nature with some of these titles about birding. Check out the Audubon Society’s Web site for more information on bird watching.
Snapper
By Brian Kimberling.
[For three hours I stood there, begging for help, and not one person stopped. Oh, people.] My people.
Brian Kimberling, Snapper
"It takes no skill to find a bald eagle. You look for flat rabbits on country roads. Wait a while and the national emblem will appear, menace anything that got there first, and plunge his majestic head deep in a mass of entrails. . . . The eagle can hunt, of course; he just prefers not to. Benjamin Franklin called him a bird of bad moral character. It takes no skill to find the nest, either. Look for a shipwreck in a tree, layered in feces . . . The likeliest impediment to (the eagles’) reproductive success was a human observer bungling around twice a day, but their welfare was almost incidental anyway. The point was for patriotic human hearts to swell with pride on outdoor weekends, and convincing replicas would have sufficed; the compulsive monitoring was not good husbandry, just an expression of national guilt . . . They’re glorified vultures. An apex predator that never hunts. Absurd." ―Snapper by Brian Kimberling SNAPPER is the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.
Happy to see both Ben Katchor's HAND-DRYING IN AMERICA and Brian Kimberling's SNAPPER as part of NPR's Best Books of 2013 compilation!
Sick. Finished a book in a day (Snapper by Brian Kimberling if anyone was interested and it was wonderful)