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Now Comes Good Sailing
Writers Reflect on Henry David ThoreauBy Unknown AuthorNarrated by Peter Marinker, Kaliswa Brewster, Kate Harper, Barbara Barnes, Ako Mitchell, William Hope
Length12h 19m
About this audiobook
This audiobook brings together original pieces on Thoreau by twenty-seven of today's leading writers
With narration by William Hope, Barbara Barnes, Kaliswa Brewster, Kate Harper, Peter Marinker, and Ako Mitchell
Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case • George Howe Colt • Gerald Early • Paul Elie • Will Eno • Adam Gopnik • Lauren Groff • Celeste Headlee • Pico Iyer • Alan Lightman • James Marcus • Megan Marshall • Michelle Nijhuis • Zoë Pollak • Jordan Salama • Tatiana Schlossberg • A. O. Scott • Mona Simpson • Stacey Vanek Smith • Wen Stephenson • Robert Sullivan • Amor Towles • Sherry Turkle • Geoff Wisner • Rafia Zakaria • and a cartoon by Sandra Boynton
The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), the author of
Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In
Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today's leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.
Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she rereads
Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines
Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on the
New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book
Charlotte's Web; and there's much more.
The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length12 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byPeter Marinker, Kaliswa Brewster, Kate Harper, Barbara Barnes, Ako Mitchell, William Hope
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 19, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1001 Opening Annos, Contents and Preface by Andrew Blauner
15"The Record of My Love": Thoreau and the Art of Science by Michelle Nijhuis
2Excursions Near and Far, Wild Apples by Lauren Groff
16The Apples of His Eye by A. O. Scott
3My Guidebook to Japan by Pico Iyer
17You Bring the Weather with You by Zoe Pollak
4Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis by Gerald Early
18Thoreau in Love by James Marcus
5Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island by Jordan Salama
19Practicalities: As for Clothing by Amor Towles
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6The Fragility of Solitude by Rafia Zakaria
20On Pencils and Purpose by Celeste Headlee
7My Failure by Mona Simpson
21The House That Thoreau Built by Paul Elie
8Without by Megan Marshall
22Is It Worth the While? by Geoff Wisner
9Deliberate Living: To a Slower Life by Alan Lightman
23A Few Elements of American Style by Adam Gopnik
10Walden as an Art by Robert Sullivan
24At Walden: Concord Is a Kind of Word by Will Eno
11The Year of Not Living Thickly by Sherry Turkle
25Dolittle's Rebellion by Stacey Vanek Smith
12If I Had Loved Her Less by Jennifer Finney Boylan
26Ice for the Time Being by Tatiana Schlossberg
13Following Thoreau by Kristen Case
27Walden at Midnight by Wen Stephenson, Simplify and Closing Anno
14Directions of his Dreams: Thoreau on Ice by George Howe Colt
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