I spoke with Bill Devall only once. Our discussion took place via telephone. The call lasted approximately five minutes. Before our phone conversation, although we had never met, Bill Devall had played a seminal role in changing my life. In preparation for graduate school, I read Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. The book, […]
“Some people think Jim Dodge is actually Thomas Pynchon.” Those words, followed by a broken chuckle from my professor, were all I needed to hear. I was transfixed. He had spoken the sentence with a mischievous implication of knowing. I looked about the room; nobody else appeared taken aback or affected. I half raised my […]
In the beginning a cathedral of trees. An ingress, a threshold to a world aloft. North through the enshrouding mist; striding ashore amid boggy seas teeming of unbounded ferns, fecund skunk cabbage, and fairy tale amanitas. Emerging from dusky Gaelic clouds, a locus bearing treasures: ancient promises, silver-handed kings, biophilic fables, and lesser esoterica. Behind […]