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Writing
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely
rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be
satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens
without their azure.
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the
Concord and Merrimack Rivers, "Sunday"
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Books
Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of
Place. University of Nevada Press, 2003.
Review by Kirsch, Jonathon. "Charting the
Landscape of the Mind." Los Angeles Times Book Review. February, 15, 2004.
Page 2.
Scholarly
"A
Plate Tectonics of Language: Geology
as Vernacular Science." Coming
into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Non-fiction. Eds. Alan O.
Weltzein and Susan N. Maher. U of
Utah P., 2003.
"Surveying the Sublime: Literary Cartographers and the Spirit of Place," in The Greening of Literary Scholarship. Ed. Steven Rosendale.
Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2002. 181 - 207.
"Teaching Nature, Teaching Writing: A Course on Environmental Literature." Teaching
English in the Two Year College (a publication of the NCTE), 21 (Fall 1994): 206-214.
Creative Nonfiction
“Weed
Eaters.” Watershed. 3:2 (December 2006) 13 – 18.
“Bridge 33.” forthcoming in
Fishing the Angles: New Writing about Fly Fishing. Lowell Mick
White, editor.
“Scorched Earth.” Collection of essays in tribute to Rachel Carson’s
Sense of Wonder. Julie Dunlap, editor, forthcoming, Oregon State UP.
“The Places I’ve Lived, and the Ones I Live For.” under consideration,
ISLE, Scott Slovic, editor.
“Beautiful
Scavengers.” Appalachian Voices, April 2006
“Nordic Fun.”
Outdoors section, The Roanoke Times. 27 January 2006.
Reviews, Commentary, and Poetry
“Telling
It Like It Was . . . And Is!” (on a slogan for the New River). Commentary.
The Roanoke Times.
14 October 2004.
“No Matter How You Say It, Bush Is No Friend of the Environment.” Commentary.
The Roanoke Times.
18 April 2004.
Review of Small Wonder, by
Barbara Kingsolver. The Roanoke Times. 10 November, 2002.
Review of Escapee, by Tim Poland. The Roanoke Times. 2
December 2001.
Review of
This Rock, by Robert Morgan. The Roanoke Times. 4 November
2001.
Review of Far Appalachia: Following the
New River North, by Noah Adams. The Roanoke Times. 22 April
2001.
Review of The Greatest Inventor in the
West, by Bill Gulick. Western American Literature. Spring,
2001.
Review of Prodigal Summer,
by Barbara Kingsolver. The Roanoke Times. 10 December 2000.
Review of Jayber Crow, by Wendell
Berry. The Roanoke Times. 15 October 2000
"Radford Should Save Its Historic Buildings..Radford Should Save Its Historic Buildings.Radford Should Save Its Historic Buildings.."
The New River Valley Current. 26 March
2000.
Review of Hunting for Hope, by Scott Russell
Sanders. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
(Summer 2000): 303.
Review of Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan.
The
Roanoke Times. 5 March 2000.
"Changing Horizons."
The Southwest Times.
20 February 2000.
Review of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, by
Janisse Ray. The Roanoke Times. 9 January
2000.
"Bike Path is 'Smarter' Road." The Roanoke
Times. 4 July 1999.
Review of Where Past Meets Present: Modern Colorado Short Stories,
James
Hemesath,
Ed., in Western American Literature. (Summer 1996): 191.
"River Sneakers."
The Case Reserve Review, (Fall 1995): 22.
"Lost and Found in Telluride."
The Pennington Review, (Winter 1990):
21-24.
Conference Papers
"Castaways in the Mountains: Survivors in Appalachia."
Chair of Panel on "The Particulars of Appalachia." Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, June
21, 2001.
"A Watershed Approach in the Professional Writing Classroom." Panel on
"Re-imagining Professional Writing: Crossing Boundaries with Environmental
Issues." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minnesota, MN, April,
12, 2000.
"Putting Wilderness Back in the City: Rethinking the 'Urban Jungle'." Great
Lakes American Studies Association, Youngstown, OH, April 7-9, 2000.
"Surveying the Sublime: Literary Cartographers and the Spirit of
Place." Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 17, 1999.
"Explorations in Objectivity: Science and the Sublime in Clarence King and John
Wesley Powell." Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment,
Missoula, MT, July 17, 1997.
"Warping History: Wallace Stegner and the New Historicism," American Literature
Association, San Diego, CA, June 1, 1996.
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