Listen "Nature and the Strange: Matt Stansberry"
Episode Synopsis
Nature writer and podcaster Matt Stansberry tells us about the challenges of conservation and management—and the supernatural goings-on that come with it. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: The Squonk, illustrated by Coert Du Bois and William T. Cox [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! A. R. Ammons The Snow Poems Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me, Ultima Ted Andrews Animal-Speak: Understanding Animal Messengers, Totems, and Signs Aristotle John Baglow Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self Frank Black "Los Angeles" James Cameron True Lies Mike Clelland The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker CreekDan Flores Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History Dan Flores Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in AmericaNell Greenfieldboyce Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life Lyanda Lynn Haupt Václav Havel Tom Hennen Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems Hub City Writers Project Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World John Lane Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems Dave Lucas Weather Hugh MacDiarmid James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Alice Oswald / Paul Keegan Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology Rachel Pollack Tom Putnam The Dark Divide Robert Michael Pyle Rider Waite Smith Tarot Mary Ruefle Madness, Rack, and Honey Trevor Shikaze / WAWI Terrible, Glorious, & Useful Matt Stansberry "Rootless: Byrology as a Cure for Loneliness in the Landscape" Matt Stansberry Rustbelt Arcana: Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds Matt Stansberry / Sarah Rose The Campfire's Edge Matt Stansberry / David Wilson Rust Belt Arcana Tarot Deck Gavin Van Horn Paula Whyman Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop Virginia Woolf William Butler Yeats A Vision
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