I’m posting here a slightly different version of my February essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education, just in the interest of helping the piece continue to circulate in forms that are easily shared. Big thanks to the Chronicle for their support!
As part of my freelance work with Kent State University Press, I’m spending some of this season drumming up awareness of (among other titles) Ghosts of an Old Forest by Deborah Fleming, a retired professor of English at Ashland University. It’s a task made considerably easier by the success of Fleming’s previous book, also with Kent State. Resurrection of the Wild was published in 2020 and won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, judged that year by Jelani Cobb, Daniel Menaker, and Judith Thurman.
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