{"product_id":"now-comes-good-sailing-writers-reflect-on-henry-david-thoreau-9780691215228","title":"Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan - Kristen Case - George Howe Colt - Gerald Early - Paul Elie - Will Eno - Adam Gopnik - Lauren Groff - Celeste Headlee - Pico Iyer - Alan Lightman - James Marcus - Megan Marshall - Michelle Nijhuis - Zoë Pollak - Jordan Salama - Tatiana Schlossberg - A. O. Scott - Mona Simpson - Stacey Vanek Smith - Wen Stephenson - Robert Sullivan - Amor Towles - Sherry Turkle - Geoff Wisner - Rafia Zakaria - and a cartoon by Sandra Boynton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Civil Disobedience,\" and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In \u003ci\u003eNow Comes Good Sailing\u003c\/i\u003e, twenty-seven of today's leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them--and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she rereads \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eeditor E. B. White and his book \u003ci\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/i\u003e; and there's much more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Blauner\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary agent and the editor of seven previous anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eCoach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy \u0026amp; the Gang, and the Meaning of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs\u003c\/i\u003e. Facebook.com\/ThoreauAnthology\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50448174612754,"sku":"9780691215228","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1748aa60-8ea4-48fb-8f4d-354bcc8a5339.jpg?v=1729728074","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/now-comes-good-sailing-writers-reflect-on-henry-david-thoreau-9780691215228","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}