If a song defines a place, what does it mean to lose it?
Items by Melissa Hart
An author explores the unlikely relationship between a musical genius and avian pariah.
A new book examines six decades of transformation in Monterey, California.
Author Kathleen Alcalá on learning to become an activist.
If our daughter couldn’t tolerate nature, how would we integrate her into our world?
A writer and her family court the unknown.
A conversation with L.A. writer Jervey Tervalon.
Review of 'The Residue Years' by Mitchell S. Jackson
A review of Survival Skills by Jean Ryan.
A review of The Old Man’s Love Story by Rudolfo Anaya
A book review of Brother and the Dancer by Keenan Norris
In "The Searchers," Glenn Frankel examines the myth of the kidnapping of Cynthia Ann Parker by Comanche Indians.
Novelist William L. Sullivan re-opens the case of Dan Cooper, the parachuting plane hijacker
Colorado resident Barbara K. Richardson crafts a novel about a pioneer girl finding her own salvation in Mormon Utah.
Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild describes her arduous trek along the Pacific Crest Trail as she seeks to recover from life-changing grief.
Sarah Juniper Rabkin's new essay collection is the intriguing, wide-ranging What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding a Home in the World.
An Oregon nonprofit allows young girls from troubled homes to become a Princess for a Day.
The essays in Robin Cody's Another Way the River Has range all over the map but somehow lead back to the river.
After a lifetime of despising and fearing guns, a woman is blindsided by the everyday kindness shown by two hunters.
Two recent memoirs -- Siesta Lane by Amy Minato and Lift by Rebecca K. O'Connor -- raise questions about the meaning of home, for both humans and falcons.
The short stories in Laura Chester’s Rancho Weirdo revolve around the unexpected interactions of middle-class people with nature.
A mother introduces her newly adopted child to the birds at a raptor rehabilitation center and teaches her their names.
In Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Island Debris, naturalist Bonnie Henderson traces the origins of the strange things she finds on the Oregon seashore.
The unlikely path to becoming an environmental writer, memoirist and poet.
Melissa Hart remembers her eccentric, independent great-grandmother, who taught her about reuse and recycling long before it was fashionable.
Melissa Hart’s relationship with an owl transforms
her life
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