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I followed up England’s Dreaming with a slim volume by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa is an account of Hawthorne’s time spent caring for his five year old son Julian while his wife was away visiting her mother in Boston. The book is taken from Hawthorne’s American Notebooks and [...]

I’ve just finished England’s Dreaming by Jon Savage. It took me a year but in the end I enjoyed it. It’s the story of Malcolm McLaren, punk rock’s beginnings, and the creation of the Sex Pistols—along with a heavy dose of history regarding England’s culture, politics and mood in the late 1970′s. Highly recommended.

There is an excellent article in the current anniversary issue of The New Yorker magazine by Richard Preston entitled “Climbing The Redwoods” (unfortunately the article is not online). Preston is working on a book about tree climbing and spent some time in the Northern California redwoods with Stephen Sillett and his wife Marie Antoine—researchers on [...]