Author and Ashland Creek Press co-founder John Yunker joined guest Joelle Teachey, executive director of Trees Upstate, for a podcast focused on environmental literature. The Afterword is a podcast devoted to the “future of words” and is hosted by Amy Bowling and Holland Webb. You can listen to it here. You can also subscribe here via iTunes. Midge RaymondAshland Creek …
Every day here at Ashland Creek Press is Earth Day … but we love it when the rest of the world celebrates our planet as well. We hope you have a wonderful day and that you are able to celebrate the planet by being outdoors, enjoying the company of animals, reading a good eco-lit book …
It was very happy to see today that Tesla is now offering a vegan-friendly model of its cars, primarily meaning no leather. Not that I’m about to rush out and buy one anytime soon (you can get a leather-free Subaru for quite a bit less). But it’s gratifying to see people with means pressuring luxury automakers to rethink …
With all the negativity surrounding climate change (for good reason, of course — but it just gets so depressing), I loved discovering Handprinter.org, an app that focuses not only on one’s individual carbon footprint but on the handprint: i.e., all the good a person can do for the planet, while offsetting his or her own …
I loved being in the Portland, Oregon, airport last week and being able to refill my aluminum water bottle at this handy fountain. As most of us who carry our own bottles know, it can be rather messy to refill them at normal drinking fountains (and, having to be held at those awkward angles, they …
When I was in Boston last week for AWP, I ventured from downtown Boston over to Somerville to try the vegan restaurant True Bistro, which was well worth the rush-hour T ride and the windy, sleety 10-minute walk. Boston is one of my favorite cities ever (I lived there for 10 years and still miss …
In conversation with Float author JoeAnn Hart and cover artist Karen Ristuben JoeAnn Hart is the author of Float, a “witty, profound, and beautifully observed” (Margot Livesey) novel about family, the environment, and life in a hardscrabble seaside town in Maine. Karen Ristuben is an award-winning artist and educator whose work is environmental advocacy at its core. JoeAnn …
An interview with Float author JoeAnn Hart by Shelby Harris Q: I love the multiplicity of the title, Float. Can you give a little background on how you developed the title? Did you decided on “float” as a title before, after, or somewhere in the middle of writing the novel? A: No matter what I …