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The Once and Future Lake

Stories for Great Salt Lake

by Rob Carney, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky, Claire Wahmanholm, Natalie Young, Nan Seymour, Brooke Williams, Joel Long, Nicole Walker, Willy Palomo, Scott Morris, Justin Evans, Charles Waugh, Terry Tempest Williams, Rachel White, Kylan Rice, Katherine Indermaur, Eli McCann, Sylvia Torti, Lindsey Webb, Star Coulbrooke, Paisley Rekdal, Andy Hoffmann, Karin Anderson, Adam O. Davis, Scott Abbott, Dayna Patterson, Sarah May, Katherine Coles, Marissa Beckström, Ayja Bounous, Brooke Larsen, Teri Harman, Lisa Bickmore, Jared Farmer, Sarah L. Fox ...

For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and the region’s economic future. As humans continue to divert its waters for agriculture and mine its marshlands ... Read more

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For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and the region’s economic future. As humans continue to divert its waters for agriculture and mine its marshlands
... Read more
Sustainability

A Love Story

by Nicole Walker ...

Series series 21st Century Essays
In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway—who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels—tsk-tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony that playfully addresses the ... Read more

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In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway—who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels—tsk-tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony that playfully addresses the
... Read more
Processed Meats

Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster

by Nicole Walker ...

**"Nicole Walker writes with dazzling liquidity."—ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author of ZoologiesNicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means of coping** when she failed to get pregnant. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she cooked veggie burgers for friends and hamburgers for herself—to enjoy outside, six feet apart. Her Mormon ancestors canned peaches to prepare for the End of Days and ... Read more

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**"Nicole Walker writes with dazzling liquidity."—ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author of ZoologiesNicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means of coping** when she failed to get pregnant. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she cooked veggie burgers for friends and hamburgers for herself—to enjoy outside, six feet apart. Her Mormon ancestors canned peaches to prepare for the End of Days and
... Read more
After Montaigne

Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church, Brian Doyle, Lisa Ferreira, Vivian Gornick, Wayne Koestenbaum, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, Maggie Nelson, Jose Orduna, Elena Passarello, Kristen Radtke, Amy Scott, Jerald Walker, Marcia Aldrich, Robert Atwan, Mary Cappello, Danielle Cadena Deulen, E. J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Bret Lott, Lia Purpura, Nicole Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lina M. Ferreira, Robin Hemley ...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and ... Read more

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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and
... Read more
Bending Genre

Essays on Creative Nonfiction

Edited by Dr. Margot Singer, Dr. Nicole Walker ...

Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined important questions of literary form. Bending Genre does not ask where the boundaries between genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the ... Read more

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Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined important questions of literary form. Bending Genre does not ask where the boundaries between genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the
... Read more
Writing the Hard Stuff

Turning Difficult Subjects into Meaningful Prose

by Dr. Nicole Walker ...

A reflective and practical guide for writers wanting to dig into difficult or personal subjects, this book offers a road map to the special craft techniques that will allow authors to navigate trauma and tough topics to create compelling and accessible prose. With consideration of traumatic experiences such as domestic violence and sexual abuse, but also thinking about how best to tackle political ... Read more

$23.09 USD

A reflective and practical guide for writers wanting to dig into difficult or personal subjects, this book offers a road map to the special craft techniques that will allow authors to navigate trauma and tough topics to create compelling and accessible prose. With consideration of traumatic experiences such as domestic violence and sexual abuse, but also thinking about how best to tackle political
... Read more
How to Plant a Billion Trees

A Memoir of Childhood Trauma and the Healing Power of Nature

by Dr. Nicole Walker ...

When Nicole Walker was molested and had an abortion at age 11, the distance between her and the world grew until she couldn't imagine a future place for her anywhere.In How to Plant a Billion Trees, Walker tries to understand why her whole life didn't fall apart, as was predicted. As she pieces together her story, she finds that it was thanks in no small part to her mother, her sisters, her ... Read more

$27.39 USD

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When Nicole Walker was molested and had an abortion at age 11, the distance between her and the world grew until she couldn't imagine a future place for her anywhere.In How to Plant a Billion Trees, Walker tries to understand why her whole life didn't fall apart, as was predicted. As she pieces together her story, she finds that it was thanks in no small part to her mother, her sisters, her
... Read more

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How to Land a Top-Paying Passenger relations representatives Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

by Walker Nicole ...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Passenger relations representatives job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to ... Read more

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For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Passenger relations representatives job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to
... Read more
The After-Normal

Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet

by David Carlin, Nicole Walker ...

“A” is for Australia and “A” is for Arizona, over 9,000 miles apart but sharing the same Earth. In this eccentric, intimate compendium of short environmental and personal essays, David Carlin (in Melbourne) and Nicole Walker (in Flagstaff) engage in a long-distance dialogue between two writers, creating an improvisational subversion of the encyclopedia, a witty-yet-serious send-up of the concept ... Read more

$9.95 USD

“A” is for Australia and “A” is for Arizona, over 9,000 miles apart but sharing the same Earth. In this eccentric, intimate compendium of short environmental and personal essays, David Carlin (in Melbourne) and Nicole Walker (in Flagstaff) engage in a long-distance dialogue between two writers, creating an improvisational subversion of the encyclopedia, a witty-yet-serious send-up of the concept
... Read more
Bending Genre

Essays on Creative Nonfiction

Edited by Dr. Margot Singer, Dr. Nicole Walker ...

Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in creative nonfiction, Bending Genre asks not where the boundaries between the genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. The ... Read more

$30.99 USD

Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in creative nonfiction, Bending Genre asks not where the boundaries between the genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. The
... Read more
Waveform

Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women

by Marcia Aldrich, Eula Biss, Barrie Jean Borich, Joy Castro, Patricia Foster, Sonja Livingston, Kyoko Mori, Bich Minh Nguyen, Jericho Parms, Kristen Radtke0, Cheryl Strayed1, Nicole Walker2, Amy Wright3, Jocelyn Bartkevicius4, Chelsea Biondolillo5, Laurie Lynn Drummond6, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich7, Michele Morano8, Adriana Paramo9, Meghan Daum0, Neela Vaswani1, Sarah Valentine2, Dana Tommasino3, Wendy Rawlings4, Torrey Peters5, Brenda Miller6, Margo Jefferson7, Leslie Jamison8, Roxane Gay9, Jaquira Díaz0 ...

Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works
... Read more
The Science of Story

The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction

Edited by Dr Sean Prentiss, Dr. Nicole Walker ...

Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing? Drawing on the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience the book sheds new light on some of the most important elements of the writer's craft, from perspective and truth to emotion and ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing? Drawing on the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience the book sheds new light on some of the most important elements of the writer's craft, from perspective and truth to emotion and
... Read more

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