Lost Mountain paperback
Erik Reece’s Lost Mountain, a look at the devastating effects of radical strip-mining in Appalachia, is out in paperback. On Air America, he discusses U.S. energy policy and more.
Erik Reece’s Lost Mountain, a look at the devastating effects of radical strip-mining in Appalachia, is out in paperback. On Air America, he discusses U.S. energy policy and more.
I think I’ve always used “spat” as the past tense of “spit,” but evidently some Americans don’t — or didn’t.
I’m occasionally cross-posting to New Critics, a site collecting writing on the arts from fifteen bloggers, many (but not all) of whom write elsewhere about politics.
At fifteen, I was obsessed with East of Eden. Like Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, and A Farewell to Arms, the book was a gift from my mom. I’m convinced she passed it along in part so we could pass time stuck in traffic by identifying similarities between my father and Steinbeck’s feral sociopath, Cathy Ames. Steinbeck is so out . . .
In the case of Ted Haggard, my mother’s definition of “heterosexual” has been adopted.