The Descendants: Bourgeois Self-Congratulation
Sigh. The Descendants. The reviews from places like Rolling Stone and the New York Times call it a “nearly perfect” movie. While Dana Stevens over at Slate, did take on the thinness of the story, and the underwritten nature of the George Clooney character, no one that I’ve seen (in my cursory Google search) seems [...]
Caribou Island
One of the things that fascinated me when I was in graduate school was the way that landscape functioned in fiction, and in particular, the ways that wildness and wilderness were portrayed. In part this was because I was trying both to discover and to portray what it was about landscape that kept me in [...]
New Year, New Blog
Although I don’t anticipate the demise of LivingSmall any time soon, for some time now, I’ve been finding that venue confining. While sustainability will continue to be an ongoing concern, it’s only part of a larger discussion I’d like to begin about how we can interrogate the conventional narratives that are driving our political and [...]
