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2008 Commencement Address at Reed College May 19, 2008
2008 Commencement Address at Reed College
Unsolicited advice for the most recent graduates of my alma mater in Portland, Oregon.

Creative Writing for Extraterrestrials May 15, 2008
Creative Writing for Extraterrestrials
Published by The Christian Science Monitor.
A writing class at the University of Wyoming contemplates the problems and pleasures of extraterrestrial conversation.

October 29, 2007
The Last Ride
Published by High Country News.
One hitchhiker's oral history.

July 01, 2007
Everybody's Doing It
Published by Orion.
What your credit card says about your social conscience (and your bathroom habits).

October 12, 2006
Wrestling on a Mountain in Turkey
Published by The Christian Science Monitor.
It's all true.

March 05, 2006
Forgiving Dalton Trumbo
Published by The San Francisco Chronicle.
Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, outraged his Colorado hometown with his first novel. Seventy years later, that town is giving Trumbo another chance.



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Listen to my interview with the founder of conservation biology, Michael Soule, on wolves and Colorado

Watch a slideshow and hear an interview based on my High Country News essay "Township 13 South, Range 92 West, Section 35."

Listen to my 2008 commencement address at Reed College

 

 



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