by David Quammen | May 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
MAY 1, 2020 So here we are, amid a global pandemic of a disease called COVID-19, caused by a virus known as SARS-CoV-2. It’s terrible, and many people are suffering—suffering the disease, and suffering economic and social hardships related to the shutdowns...
by David Quammen | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
November 6, 2019 On the second floor of the Metropolitan Club in New York, overlooking Fifth Avenue, is an ornate, high-ceilinged room with gray marble fireplaces, burgundy drapes, Renaissance-flavored murals, and many yards of decorative woodwork painted gold. It’s...
by David Quammen | Feb 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
February 18, 2019 Forty-five years in Montana, hiking the trails, skiing the mountains, driving the back roads, and I had never caught a glimpse of a mountain lion. It’s not that they are rare here—they aren’t. They live a pretty good life and at...
by David Quammen | Oct 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
The working life of a writer is solitary. You sit alone in a room, hour after hour, day after day, and you create pages. It takes years to write a book (five years, for me, is about the minimum on a complex nonfiction project), and once that book...
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...
