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...
by David Quammen | Jan 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
from National Geographic online Scary new viruses emerge abruptly in our modern world, provoking stark headlines and demands for bold government action—but in most cases the causes are complex and have developed, unnoticed, over years or decades. That’s true again for...
by David Quammen | Jan 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Termas del Flaco is a tiny hot springs resort at the end of a long gravel road leading eastward into the Chilean Andes, eighty kilometers southeast of a town called San Fernando. The road is one-lane and dicey, as it follows the tumbling Tinguiririca River upstream,...
by David Quammen | Jun 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
One year ago at this time, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was just emerging from a lull, a falsely reassuring hiatus, like the “phony war” that settled over Europe in 1939, after Hitler’s invasion of Poland. During early April, 2014, there was optimism among...
