Los Angeles author J. Michael Walker responds to yesterday’s post with his own suggestion.
He says: “Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss, around late 1980’s I suppose, would have to be a fairly irreplaceable book on outer Alaska, too.
“Parts of it —
swallowing whiskey? vodka? and stepping outside in sub-zero weather and freezing to death from [...]
Stories in West Coast:
Exploring Alaska, part II
Suddenly interested in all things Alaska?
A reader at the NYT’s Paper Cuts blog shares this suggestion: “A wonderful book that features Alaska is Drop City by the incredible T.C. Boyle. A group of hippies from California move to a remote part of Alaska in 1970.”
We hear from friends
at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that Tom Robbins is the paper’s current Writer in Residence. Read his first offering here.
Exploring Alaska, part II
Suddenly interested in all things Alaska?
A reader at the NYT’s Paper Cuts blog shares this suggestion: “A wonderful book that features Alaska is Drop City by the incredible T.C. Boyle. A group of hippies from California move to a remote part of Alaska in 1970.”
We hear from friends
at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that Tom Robbins is the paper’s current Writer in Residence. Read his first offering here.
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