In my last post I mentioned one of my favorite little books, The Freedom Manifesto, by British author, rural smallholder, and Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson. If you’re looking for some intelligent delight and fine essaying, I hope you’ll pick it up yourself. How could you resist, with chapters like: “Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree,” “The Tyranny [...]
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Off the Shelf: Cookbook of the Month
September 3rd, 2011 · 13 Comments
I confess to having a slight cookbook addiction, one I have no intention of giving up. I keep cookbooks by my bed and read them like novels. My kitchen bookshelves are overflowing, and whenever someone wants to buy me something for my birthday, somehow I just can’t keep from asking for a cookbook. My cookbooks [...]
Kelly and Erik From Root Simple: Bees, Bread, And Radical Home Economics
May 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments
A guest post from Tom: In a perfect storm of mismatched calendars, Lyanda was doing a reading in Portland this week while Kelly and Erik of the blog Root Simple (formerly Homegrown Evolution) were in the Seattle area, doing events in support of their great new book Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer [...]
Tags: bees, books, food, urban farming
Crow Planet Giveaway Winner
April 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Congratulations to “kat,” who helped celebrate the paperback release of Crow Planet by winning our giveaway! The book is in the mail. I hope you’ll join me at one of my upcoming readings at two of the northwest’s most fabled bookshops: Powell’s (Burnside), Portland, Monday May 2, 7:30 p.m. Elliott Bay Bookstore, Seattle, Monday, May [...]
Crow Planet Paperback!
April 12th, 2011 · 33 Comments
I’m so happy to announce that the paperback version of Crow Planet is hot off the presses. You can order one already from the usual online venues, and it will be in your local shop by April 21st, the official release date. In addition to affordability, the paperback is loaded with extras: a conversational interview [...]
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Fountain Pens for Everyday: Join Me in a Writing Revolution
March 7th, 2011 · 36 Comments
Last year I was carrying around a couple of gift cards for the University of Washington Bookstore I’d received after doing authorly engagements there. Instead of adding to the pile of books in my study that constantly threatens to swallow me whole, I decided to do something I’d always wanted to do: take myself down [...]
Tags: waste reduction, writing
Radical Homemakers
May 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments
There are all kinds of how-to manuals out there, new ones and old ones, supporting the recent movement to reclaim home sufficiency skills–everything from spinning wool to making yogurt to constructing a chicken coop out of salvaged wood pallets. In her new book, Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture, farmer, homemaker, and Cornell [...]
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