Now Comes Good Sailing : : Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau / / ed. by Andrew Blauner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Blauner, Andrew,; Boynton, Sandra,; Case, Kristen,; Early, Gerald,; Elie, Paul,; Eno, Will,; Finney Boylan, Jennifer,; Gopnik, Adam,; Groff, Lauren,; Headlee, Celeste,; Howe Colt, George,; Iyer, Pico,; Lightman, Alan,; Marcus, James,; Marshall, Megan,; Nijhuis, Michelle,; Pollak, Zoë,; Salama, Jordan,; Schlossberg, Tatiana,; Scott, A. O.,; Simpson, Mona,; Stephenson, Wen,; Sullivan, Robert,; Towles, Amor,; Turkle, Sherry,; Vanek Smith, Stacey,; Wisner, Geoff,; Zakaria, Rafia,
• HerausgeberIn: Blauner, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 2 b/w illus.

From twenty-seven of today’s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan ● Kristen Case ● George Howe Colt ● Gerald Early ● Paul Elie ● Will Eno ● Adam Gopnik ● Lauren Groff ● Celeste Headlee ● Pico Iyer ● Alan Lightman ● James Marcus ● Megan Marshall ● Michelle Nijhuis ● Zoë Pollak ● Jordan Salama ● Tatiana Schlossberg ● A. O. Scott ● Mona Simpson ● Stacey Vanek Smith ● Wen Stephenson ● Robert Sullivan ● Amor Towles ● Sherry Turkle ● Geoff Wisner ● Rafia Zakaria ● and a cartoon by Sandra BoyntonThe world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), the author of Walden, “Civil Disobedience,” and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she re-reads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau’s Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau’s footsteps at Maine’s Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau’s influence on The New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte’s Web; and there’s much more.The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Excursions near and Far -- Wild Apples -- My Guidebook to Japan -- Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis -- Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island -- The Fragility of Solitude -- My Failure -- Without -- Deliberate Living -- To a Slower Life -- Walden as an Art -- The Year of Not Living Thickly -- If I Had Loved Her Less -- Following Thoreau -- Directions of his Dreams -- Thoreau on Ice -- “The Record of My Love”: Thoreau and the Art of Science -- The Apples of His Eye -- You Bring the Weather with You -- Thoreau in Love -- Practicalities -- As for Clothing -- On Pencils and Purpose -- The House That Thoreau Built -- Is It Worth the While? -- A Few Elements of American Style -- At Walden -- Concord Is a Kind of Word -- Dolittle’s Rebellion -- Ice, for the Time Being -- Walden at Midnight: Three Walks with Thoreau -- Simplify, Simplify -- Notes -- Contributors -- Credits