by David Quammen | Jun 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
June 21, 2018 Speaking of snakes. But this snake story (unlike the last one, see under DQ Blog, “The Latest Is Late”) doesn’t involve a thirteen-foot African rock python, spotted underfoot in the grass of a Mozambique savanna. This one is...
by David Quammen | May 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
May 24, 2018 “We stepped out of the helicopter and there in the grass was a thirteen-foot African snake.” Ah, good: I’ve been wanting to write that sentence, but there just hasn’t been time. It happened a month ago—April 15, to be exact—in...
by David Quammen | Mar 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
March 23, 2017I saw it coming, almost, before it came. I had a few seconds of murky premonition. And then bingo: a gentle sort of mugging—just a team pickpocket play, really, with downfield blocking—which was halfway clever, and nearly worked. Fortunately, I...
by David Quammen | Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
January 24, 2017 So we went to the Sundance Film Festival, yes, and a merry and curious time it was. Betsy and I drove down to Park City, Utah, along with two of our dogs–the most needy, the borzois Nick and Stella–on Friday, leaving...
by David Quammen | Dec 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 8, 2016 Forty-some years ago, I wrote a short story titled “Walking Out.” It’s the tale of a boy and a father and a hunting trip gone wrong. I was paying my dues as a struggling young writer at the time, waiting...
