{"product_id":"now-comes-good-sailing-writers-reflect-on-henry-david-thoreau","title":"Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom twenty-seven of today’s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), the author of Walden , “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 Now Comes Good Sailing , 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she rereads Walden ; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden 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 New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte’s Web ; and there’s much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50991961604343,"sku":"978-0691215228","price":7.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50991961637111,"sku":"978-0691215228","price":22.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/4254\/8727\/files\/ebook_1543_cb3697cdd4.jpg?v=1785572892","url":"https:\/\/kidobook.store\/products\/now-comes-good-sailing-writers-reflect-on-henry-david-thoreau","provider":"KidoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}