Loren Eiseley Ideas

Ideas and Art of Loren Eiseley

Heard Among Wild Ramblings

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Bill Lattrell pens Wild Ramblings, "a New England Ecologist's Writings . . ." Latrell recently confided with readers that Eiseley had been a major influence in his late teenage years. Lattrell read The Immense Journey before his career began, then … [Read more]

Inner Galaxy Sighting

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The Red Star Cafe excerpts The Inner Galaxy: Here -- not with the ax, not with the bow --man fumbled at the door of his true kingdom. Here, hidden in times of trouble behind silent brows, against the man with the flint, waited St. Francis of the … [Read more]

Firemaker

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Scholaris Erratus was inspired in part by Eiseley's essay "Man the Firemaker," found in The Star Thrower. Man . . . is himself a flame. He has burned through the animal world and appropriated its vast stores of protein for his own. "Erratus" wrote … [Read more]

Sustainability

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  • One Earthling
    A Review of Earthling: A New Ethics for the Anthropocene by Dean Wallraff I’ve written a handful of reviews for authors I’ve known, but none whose narrative includes the author’s remarkable — and relevant — life story. Privy as I am to some of this author’s personal history, some of which is readily shared in […]
  • Elevating the Ordinary: Gravity vs. Karl Ove Knausgaard
    Karl Ove Knausgaard's Summer, like the season it marks, is as much about the heat of dissipation and as it is of lawn sprinklers and cherry trees that push back with a stubborn, if not irresistible delight. Summer is less about writing than about attention. The post Elevating the Ordinary: Gravity vs. Karl Ove Knausgaard […]
  • The Little Clan of Literate Discourse
    While at times this reviewer of The Little Clan is himself desperate for "the casual entitlement of vertical parity" with worthwhile, enviable acquaintances and adversaries, for someone who might call out my "distinctive aesthetic" or conversations in which the participants bemoan their "desultory attempts" at topics less "pedestrian," the world drawn in The Little Clan […]
  • What passes for perverted is normal, and vice versa: a review of Jen Silverman’s The Island Dwellers collection
    There is such a thing as a credible joke — one based in astute observation, irony, paradox. Such humor lies at the opposite end of puns: it’s richly semantic. If credibility matters, do read this collection. You’ll be laughing, but the laughter is razor sharp. Even the titles in this short story collection by Jen […]
  • Sync with the Inefficiencies of Time
    Sync with the Inefficiencies of Time: DarkViolin reviews The After Party, a poetry collection by Jana Prikryl. The post Sync with the Inefficiencies of Time appeared first on Inside the Ordinary.