Links, news and blurbs related to upcoming or ongoing projects that I have been involved with…please check back for updates!
BOOKS
Autumn 2007
Antarctica: Life on Ice, edited by Susan Fox Rogers, is NOW AVAILABLE. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on at the bottom of the world, this is a book for you. This collection of essays, all written by insiders, covers topics ranging from what it is like to participate in extreme environment survival training to what it is like to spend a summer at a remote field camp with way more penguins than people. The writing in Antarctica: Life on Ice (Travelers’ Tales, 2007) is funny and exudes adventure. Above all, it captures the beauty and spirit of a place that has worked its way into the hearts of these writers. My essay titled “We Ate No Turkey: A Holiday on Ice” is included in the book. For more details and ordering information, click here for the Antarctica: Life on Ice page at Travelers’ Tales.
Spring 2007
A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise: 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World, edited by Bonnie Tsui, is NOW AVAILABLE. “This is not your parents’ nature writing!” warns Sierra Club Books. The “writings in this collection illuminate questions about self and place, belonging and rootlessness, and the meaning of created and natural landscapes.” My essay titled “Eden and the Underworld” appears in the book. Check out Amazon.com for reviews and ordering information. Click here to read what Sacramento News and Review has to say about this book.
Autumn 2006
Michelle Goodman’s Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube, is NOW AVAILABLE. In this book, Michelle Goodman manages to serve up advice on freelancing, temping, telecommuting, starting a business, founding a non-profit, as well as working part-time, flextime, overseas, outdoors, and in the trades. According to BUST magazine, the result is “a handy desk resource for women whose ambitions run the gamut, from becoming a forest ranger to starting a non-profit.” For more information, check out Michelle’s blog at www.anti9to5guide.com
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS by Traci J. Macnamara:
Denver’s Rocky Mountain News:
April 17, 2008:
“New-era ‘Arabian Nights’ weaves bygone stories into the mosaic of modern times”
A review of Rabih Alameddine’s The Hakawati; Knopf, 2008.
February 22, 2008:
“Wildly inventive novel melds science, love”
A review of Samantha Hunt’s The Invention of Everything Else; Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Sacramento’s News and Review:
April 24, 2008
“Physics, schmisics!”
A review of Michio Kaku’s Physics of Impossibility; Doubleday, 2008.
February 2, 2008
“Real food for thought”
A review of Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food; The Penguin Press, 2008.
About.com’s Contemporary Literature site:
November, 2007:
A review of Laurence Bergreen’s Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu; Knopf, 2007.
January 2008:
A review of David Michaelis’ Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography; Harper, 2007.
NEWS
The International Polar Year officially launched on March 1, 2007 and will be an on ongoing international effort at scientific collaboration through March 2009. IPY will involve over 60 countries and 200 science projects devoted to furthering our understanding of polar regions and their relationship to the environment, biology, sociology, and much more…check out the developments at www.ipy.org
1 response so far ↓
michelle // January 15, 2007 at 1:44 pm
traci is probably too modest to admit that she’s prominently featured in chapter 8 of the anti 9-to-5 guide, as well as a couple other places throughout the book. (i know this because i wrote it.) yay, traci. you are an inspiration!
Leave a Comment