Environmental journalists often feel married to the tragic narrative. Pollution, extinction, invasion: The stories are endless, and endlessly the same. Our editors see the pattern and bury us in the back pages; our readers see it and abandon us on the subway or in the dentist’s office.
Sometimes we’re no fun. But assuming the value of [...]
Tag Archives: Michelle Nijhuis
“Why’s this so good?” No. 12: Ian Frazier digs into piggery
September 20, 2011 – 4:07 pm
What we’re reading: 9/11 ten years on, bat extinction and a 70-year-old mystery
August 26, 2011 – 11:49 am
In our latest roundup of narrative and narrative-ish pieces, we’ve pulled together stories reflecting on 9/11, researchers dealing with an unstoppable disease, the end of a family fishing dynasty, and a tale tracking the convoluted path of rare U.S. coins the government has been fighting to get back since the days of FDR.
“Karen Wagner’s [...]
High Country News’ Michelle Nijhuis on living with an uneasy ghost
December 9, 2009 – 3:47 pm
I was recently taken with a piece that ran ealier this year in High Country News. Written by Michelle Nijhuis, “Township 13 South, Range 92 West, Section 35” explores the idea of family roots and also offers a brief meditation on Western self-sufficiency. But as much as anything else, it serves as a requiem for a girl who died a [...]
