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Apr 19, 2022 · Ben Shattuck is the author of "The History of Sound" (Viking, July 2024) and "Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau" (Tin House, April 2022). "Six Walks" was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Indie Bestseller, and was nominated for the ...
Apr 19, 2022 · Ben Shattuck, a former Teaching-Writing Fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a recipient of the PEN America Short Story Prize and a 2019 Pushcart Prize. Shattuck's first book, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau (Tin House, 2022) was a New Yorker magazine Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of ...
Apr 19, 2022 · Ben Shattuck did himself good with walking the paths towards clarity, closures and happiness. I’d almost call is, “Six walks: Henry David Thoreau and the pursuit of happiness.” This was a great read, and a brilliant way to end 2022, and start 2023! A couple of journal entries while I read and what spoke to me:
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Apr 19, 2022 · Accompanied by Jenny, he concludes with a return visit to Provincetown, wanting the “revelation that came at the end of my first Cape walk: that following Henry led to hidden, unexpected goodness.”. The author’s black-and-white illustrations dot the narrative. Wistful and meditative, sparked by lovely prose. 2.
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Apr 19, 2022 · On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to ...
Apr 19, 2022 · By walking in Thoreau’s footsteps, Ben Shattuck ends up following the long trail left by wandering thinkers and writers like Rousseau, Muir, Walser, Benjamin, and Solnit. Along the way, Six Walks offers a moving meditation on nature and history—and what our precarious place between these two realms may be.
