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February 28, 2013

The Education of Werner Pfennig

tinhouse14I’ve finally finished a new novel, almost seven hundred pages, seven years in the making.  It follows the lives of a German boy and a French girl during World War II, and is about radio, puzzles, natural history, and a fabled diamond.  It will be published by Scribner in early 2014, but in the meantime readers can find a small piece of it in the new issue of Tin House (This Means War).  

July 17, 2012

Thirty-Year Plan

Orion asked thirty writers and thinkers to name one thing we will increasingly need over the next thirty years if humans are going to find a way to live happily, sustainably, redeemably on earth. The result is a fascinating little book featuring essays by Ralph Nader, Diane Ackerman, Carl Safina, Pete Seeger and many others.  My contribution is titled “Empty Pockets.”

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