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he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.


When I showed up with my camera at his house a few weeks later, I felt as if I had been training for that moment my entire working life. For more than forty years, in locations as disparate as the American South, Inuit villages in Alaska, Havana streets, and Hispanic towns in northern New Mexico, I learned to make portraits without the actual prese... See more
Margaret Sartor • Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection
the basis of that most profound expression of the American psyche, the game of baseball, a game whose object is to leave home in order to return to it again, transformed by the time spent circling the bases. And that famous shortstop Odysseus also played this game, propelled around the world by the same dream, of returning home in the end, transfor
... See moreAlan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
a man who lived as if the wild places of the hemisphere were his for the taking.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Live the questions, said Rilke.
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
