Thanks to the North American Review and editor Jeremy Schraffenberger for accepting my essay (along with photographs) “Woodchuck Lodge and Slabsides on the Same Day” for their blog, to be appearing soon. These two John Burroughs residences are open to the public and are well worth the visits. Jeremy edited MANIFOLD NATURE, a collection of Burroughs essays.
My friend James Lee Stern took this portrait. Thanks, Jimmy Lee.
It’s called THE RAIDER and he was working on it while he taught me English literature at the University of Rochester. I hope to carry on the tradition with my literary career.
David Hume Kennerly took some photographs of me and then showed me the results in his iPhone. First, looking over the photographs. Then the one I picked for this post. Thanks to James Lee Stern for taking the photograph of David and myself.
Even though I’ve moved on to writing novels and short stories, this book is very close to me. I had a chance to have it reprinted with new photographs and I really am proud of it. It should have won an award, but that wasn’t meant to be. Still, for a how-to, it has its literary merit as a memoir as well.
