Picks from the Past:
Cherished old clips from journalism school, recently resuscitated from the dark crevices of my filing cabinet: Big Decisions at Big Cypress (2006) unpublished work about land use issues in a national preserve; and Battered and Bruised But Still Fishing (2006) unpublished work about effects of quadruple hurricanes upon commercial watermen in the Florida Keys.
Currently reading:
Follow the Story, by James B. Stewart. A book on writing craft.
Suburban Howls, by Jon Way
Next up:
Writing for Story, by Jon Franklin. A book on writing craft.
Recently finished:
The Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen. A popular science book about the history of island biogeography.
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, death and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators, by William Stolzenburg. A popular science book about apex predator ecology. Read my blog post book review.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008.
Dogs: Their fossil relatives and evolutionary history, by Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford. An academic hybrid book about canid evolution. Read my blog post book review.
Vicious: Wolves and men in America, by Jon Coleman. A story of settlement in the northeast U.S., and the effects of encounters between wolves, native Americans and Europeans. Read my blog post book review.
Telling True Stories, by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call. Advice from the country's best journalists and non-fiction authors about how to bring narrative story-telling into your reporting and writing.
Genes, Categories and Species, by Jody Hey. An academic discussion of the "species problem," and biologists consternation in trying to devise a universal understanding of what species are. Read my blog post book review.
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba, by Rienaldo Funes Monzote. An environmental history of Cuba's sugar industry.
Monster of God, by David Quammen. An overview of the historical relationship between indigenous people and native large carnivores from nearly all the continents. Read my blog post book review.
Your Inner Fish, by Neil Shubin. An insightful tour for the curious minded through major milestones in tetrapod evolution.
At the Waters Edge, by Carl Zimmer. Old-school tour through tetrapod evolution, but worth it!
