{"product_id":"writing-from-the-center-9780253211439","title":"Writing from the Center","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry.\" --Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . \" --Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skillfully written in a clear, unmannered style refreshingly devoid of irony and hollow cleverness, the author starts with everyday experiences and gleans from them larger truths.\" --The Christian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[These] essays are so good one is tempted to stand up and applaud after reading them. . . . Sanders is a modern day prospector who finds gems of spiritual meaning in both familiar and unusual places.\" --Body Mind Spirit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting from the Center\u003c\/i\u003e is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. Lannan Literary Award winner Scott Sanders (Secrets of the Universe, Staying Put, A Paradise of Bombs) seeks and describes a center that is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual--and is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The earth needs fewer tourists and more inhabitants, it seems to me--fewer people who float about in bubbles of money and more people committed to knowing and tending their home ground.\" --Scott Russell Sanders, from the book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Russell Sanders is Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published numerous other titles--fiction, nonfiction, and children's books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872498028818,"sku":"9780253211439","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_98383587-04cc-4e97-ba22-259a3606d509.jpg?v=1737899918","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/writing-from-the-center-9780253211439","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}