Rooted in Rock: New Adirondack Writing, 1975-2000Jim Gould In the past twenty years the Adirondacks have inspired a resident population of writers who have gained regional and national prominence using the Adirondack region as their primary setting and subject matter—or at least as a significant point of departure. Rooted in Rock is the first collection of its kind in more than twenty years, since Paul Jamieson's Adirondack Reader. What makes the volume unique, though, is the number of contributors who not only make the Adirondacks their subject, but who make their homes in these mountains. The works in this volume include contemporary essays, literary nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and excerpted fiction and are a mix of new and previously published writings by forty-three authors, established as well as emerging, including Bill McKibben, Sue Halpern, Russell Banks, Alex Schoumatoff, Chase Twichell, Curt Stager, Amy Godine, and Jim Gould, to name a few. |
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... become na- tive to this place . It has never seemed necessary even to begin such a journey . And now , almost too ... becoming more vested , more rooted to the landscape . How are the writers responding ? The writers of the Adirondacks ...
... become na- tive to this place . It has never seemed necessary even to begin such a journey . And now , almost too ... becoming more vested , more rooted to the landscape . How are the writers responding ? The writers of the Adirondacks ...
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... becoming cops or soldiers or martial arts instructors ; those who become lawyers , however , especially litigators like me , are a little too intelligent , or maybe too intellectual is all , to become cops . ( I've known some pretty ...
... becoming cops or soldiers or martial arts instructors ; those who become lawyers , however , especially litigators like me , are a little too intelligent , or maybe too intellectual is all , to become cops . ( I've known some pretty ...
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... become " early bear season , " and early bear season has become a permanent fix- ture on the sportsman's calendar . Unfortunately , it has also become a permanent fixture on just about everybody else's Adirondack calendar as well . All ...
... become " early bear season , " and early bear season has become a permanent fix- ture on the sportsman's calendar . Unfortunately , it has also become a permanent fixture on just about everybody else's Adirondack calendar as well . All ...
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