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A few decades ago, the author began working as a seasonal fire lookout and park ranger in outposts like Arches National Park in southeastern Utah. Out of these cherished stints of lonely brooding came such collections of marvelously cross-grained essays as Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road, and that...
The wild animals fetch back at least 2 million years. They represent, we imagine, the first order of creation, and they are vividly marked with God's eccentric genius of design: life poured into pure forms, life unmitigated by complexities of consciousness, language, ethics, treachery, revulsion, reason, religion, premeditation or...
He was a violently cross-grained man. His life belonged as much to the history of publicity as to the history of literature. He was a splendid writer who became his own worst creation, a hoax and a bore. He ended by being one of the most famous men in...
Perhaps it is time to amend the familiar high-modernist view of Rivera as a gifted painter deformed by the needs of propaganda. Sometimes his work was too openly didactic and coarse grained, too attached to populist stereotypes of love, comradeship, struggle and work. It offended the etiquette of alienation...
The process begins in huge vats, where water is mixed with the coarse- grained durum wheatmeal called semolina that gives Italian pasta its uniquely toothsome texture and flavor. The resultant crumbly paste is then extruded through bronze bar molds pierced with openings to produce the desired shape. For the long...