Anthony Doerr's Blog, page 3

Brilliant… Like Proust, Doerr understands that reminiscences are prompted by the most mundane of things. A review in The Independent

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Anthony writes about gigantic Frisbees and whale carcasses and huge smacks of jellyfish demolishing salmon farms, as well as the future of global warming, in a chilling new essay for TMN.

Anthony's column about his favorite science titles from 2011 features books about our freshwater crisis, books about information overload, a memoir by the world's most famous ornithologist, and a fascinating new title about how impressive science (in mathematics, genetics, astronomy) is being accomplished by crowds using the tools of the Internet.

Anthony on a favorite book.

Here remain some of the least-studied places in the world, with thousands of creatures that exist absolutely nowhere else. There are cecropia trees that swarm with ants if you rap their hollow trunks; cuckoos that throw their voices; strangler figs that latch onto another tree midtrunk, drop aerial roots down to the ground and choke their host tree to death. From Send in the Clouds a new essay in the New York Times T Magazine.

Here remain some of the least-studied places in the world, with thousands of creatures that exist absolutely nowhere else. There are cecropia trees that swarm with ants if you rap their hollow trunks; cuckoos that throw their voices; strangler figs that latch onto another tree midtrunk, drop aerial roots down to the ground and choke their host tree to death. From Send in the Clouds a new essay in the New York Times T Magazine.

Groundwater supplies all over the nation are dropping, even in the relatively wet Southeast. Wetlands have become as rare as sea-run salmon, and Lake Mead, which supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas's water, could be dry by as soon as 2021. From Draining America, an October 2nd column in the Sunday Globe.

[image error] Groundwater supplies all over the nation are dropping, even in the relatively wet Southeast. Wetlands have become as rare as sea-run salmon, and Lake Mead, which supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas's water, could be dry by as soon as 2021. From Draining America, an October 2nd column in the Sunday Globe.

Anthony's story "The Deep" is part of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, edited by Dave Eggers.

Best Living Idaho Writer? That's entirely unlikely, but thanks so much to all the nice voters.