WFIU Radio Profile to be reprised

On Sunday, November 13, at 7 p.m. WFIU will re-broadcast an hour-long interview Gena Asher conducted with me last April.   Among the topics we discussed are my work on John James Audubon, my teaching at Indiana University, my forthcoming biography of Louis Agassiz (to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt next year), and the meaning of ecocriticism.  Musical interludes include a movement from the sonata in G by Robert Schumann, played by the fabulous Icelandic pianist Jon Sigurdsson, and "Do No Harm," one of fabulous singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer's contributions to Wilderness Plots.

Fanny Longfellow

I have long been fascinated with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's brilliant wife, Fanny Appleton Longfellow. A blog post I recently wrote for the Library of America's Reader's Almanac reflects on her horrific death 150 years ago.

Audubon at Trinity College

Here is a link to Richard Ring's account of my visit to Trinity College, where, among other things, I offered comments at a public viewing of their Audubon set, once owned by Audubon's engraver, Robert Havell!