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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. The progression could be said to echo that of an earlier book about an obsessive nature criminal, The Orchard Thief by Susan Orlean, which started out as an article in The New Yorker.). 2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer. photo credit: Cordula Krämer).

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. She says in her Introduction that she was inspired to compile this collection by a much earlier essay, an article by E.B. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.