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An extraordinary year of ordinary days / Susan Wittig Albert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albert, Susan Wittig.
- Series:
- Southwestern Writers Collection series.
- Southwestern Writers Collection series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Albert, Susan Wittig.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Blogs--United States.
- Blogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days, best-selling mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert invites us to revisit one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, 2008, through the lens of 365 ordinary days in which her reading, writing, and thinking about issues in the wider world--from wars and economic recession to climate change--caused her to reconsider and reshape daily practices in her personal life. Albert's journal provides an engaging account of how the business of being a successful working writer blends with her rural life in the Texas Hill Country and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. As her eclectic daily reading ranges across topics from economics, food production, and oil and energy policy to poetry, place, and the writing life, Albert becomes increasingly concerned about the natural world and the threats facing it, especially climate change and resource depletion. Asking herself, 'What does it mean? And what should I do about it",' she determines practical steps to take, such as growing more food in her garden, and also helps us to readers make sense of these issues and consider what our own responses might be. A thoughtful and thought-provoking 'book of days,' amplified with reading lists and quotations from a wide diversity of writers, An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days is a must-have addition for everyone's collection of writers' journals"--Cover, p. 4.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- A note to the reader
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
- A postscript to the reader
- Resources
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-79230-1
- OCLC:
- 671924385
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