Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Penguin, 2008). His previous book The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin, 2006), was named one of the ten best books of…
Joy Williams is the author of the novels The Quick and the Dead (Knopf, 2000), Breaking and Entering (Vintage, 1988), The Changeling (Doubleday, 1978), and State of Grace (Doubleday, 1973); the story collections Honored Guest (Knopf,
Bill McKibben is a writer, environmentalist, and founder of Step It Up 2007, an organization that sponsored rallies in hundreds of American cities on April 14, 2007, to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global…
A longtime Coloradan, Reg Saner first saw mountains during military service when he was sent to Big Delta, Alaska, for alpine and arctic survival training. After combat duty as an infantry platoon leader in the Korean War, he studied renaissance…
Rick Bass is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Where the Sea Used to Be, Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had, and, most recently, The Diezmo.