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On fracking, earthquakes and spin This Land, January 5, 2012 “Speed Freaks” Seeking the car of the future at the world land speed trials Orion, September/October 2011 “The Hand of Man” Where does the Oklahoma Aquarium end and Oklahoma begin? This Land, October 3, 2011 “After We're Gone” The meme of the post-human sublime OnEarth, June 2011 “The Economics of Estuary” How to put a price on nature Orion, September/October 2010 Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 Notable essay “In Search of the Wild Cohiba” with James Wallenstein If you go to Cuba, is a cigar just a cigar? The Believer, October 2009 Best American Travel Writing 2010 Notable essay “Beautiful Ruination” A town where core is the new green Orion, September/October 2009 “The Poetry of Power” Small hydro evangelists and their critics Orion, May/June 2009 “The Crying Indian” The environmental icon sold cans--and sold out environmentalism Orion, November-December 2008 Pushcart Prize, 2009 “Keyword: Evil” The internet: our new heavy industry Harper's, March 2008 “A Swamp Forest Grows in Brooklyn” Dancing about infrastructure in an abandoned reservoir Orion, March-April 2008 “Selling Sex in Honeymoon Heaven” Niagara: nature's Viagra The Believer, January 2008 “What's the Use of Pets?” Why Americans spend billions on Fido Orion, September/October, 2007 Best American Essays 2008 Notable essay “Faux Falls” Niagara is not what you think Orion, November, 2006 “The Ecology of Empire” Why Virgil is the epic poet for us The Believer, February, 2006 “Against Connoisseurship” Connoisseurship is to pleasure as anatomy is to sex Swink Online, March, 2005 “Why Look at Fish?” The aquarium boom and its subtexts The Believer, February, 2005 “The Age of Aquariums,” Harper's, August, 2005 “The Perils of Writing Close to Home,” Novelists and their real lives Poets & Writers, September, 2005 “Diminished Things” Why downtown residents turned to poetry after 9/11 Raritan, Fall 2003 |
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Orion, May/June, 2010 “At the Limit: Landschaft, Landscape and the Land” Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape (MassMOCA and MIT Press, May 2008) “Why Look at Animals,” catalog essay for the exhibit at Artspace, New Haven, CT, January, 2007 |
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Swink Online, February, 2006 “Firefly” Passages North, Winter/Spring 2005 “Name of the Game” The Iowa Review, Winter/Spring 2005 “Princess” Carolina Quarterly, Winter, 2004 “Third Arm” and “Lucky” The Gettysburg Review, Autumn, 2001 “Dumb” Descant, Spring, 2001 |
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