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June 21, 1936: Icy theater names touting cooled indoor air, movie listings, Minneapolis Tribune and Minneapolis Journal.

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A real delight to see THE NIMBUS written up in this week’s @newyorker.com! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Anytime is a great time to buy books by the great George R. Stewart. ("A poet and a precisionist," Wallace Stegner called him.) But the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social summer sale—30% off 3 books—is an especially good time.

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This is really lovely, and somewhat uncategorizable, as well as unsummarizable. It is not just about books. (Nor is it just about trees.) I urge you to read it. By @annasplat.bsky.social neonliterary.substack.com/p/the-arks-w...

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What a joy and honor to join @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social last night. Packed house. Invigorating conversation. Truly a wonderful evening. CSPAN recorded the event; should go online at some point. 💙📚 📷 @tkdano.bsky.social @wnwagner.bsky.social @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social

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Honored to serve as @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s interlocutor at the Denver Botanic Gardens next week! Attendees will get to hear Rob’s answer to this hard-hitting question: If rivers are indeed alive, aren’t beavers one of the forces that make them so?

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Coming this fall: THE MONSTERS WE MAKE by @rachelcorbett.bsky.social Review copies available...

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MEMORANDUM TO: Coloradans and those in the vicinity FROM: Proud editor RE: @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @bengoldfarb.bsky.social in conversation at @denverbotanic.bsky.social on Mon 6/16 Lucky you all! www.botanicgardens.org/programs/rob...

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Thanks to the independent booksellers nationwide who've made IS A RIVER ALIVE? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social a Top 10 national indie bookseller three weeks in a row.

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Out this summer: entertaining books on physics and photography. Explosions galore.

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Coming in July from @wwnorton.com -- advance review copies available...

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Today I learned that Alec Nevala-Lee's new biography of Luis Alvarez, COLLISIONS: A PHYSICIST'S JOURNEY FROM HIROSHIMA TO THE DEATH OF THE DINOSAURS, is published this week! Cyclotrons. Radar. Los Alamos. Pyramids. Swindletrons. JFK's assasination. Asteroids. Dinosaurs. Can't wait to read it.

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My new novel, A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF, will be published by @aaknopf.bsky.social in Oct 2025! It is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. Cover design gratitude to Tyler Comrie!

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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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Happy Pub Day to my better half, Alec Nevala-Lee! His biography of Nobel-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, COLLISIONS, is out today and you should read it if you are into ✅ Oppenheimer / Manhattan Project / WW2 ✅ Dinosaurs ✅ the Keith Hernandez episode of Seinfeld bookshop.org/p/books/coll...

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“Glorious”—Atlantic “Ecstatic”—LitHub “Incandescent”—Marginalian “Sinuous and often startling”—NY Times “A wide-ranging feat of reporting”—Wash Post “A profoundly beautiful and moving work”—Boston Globe “It is a masterpiece”—Economist A New York Times bestseller. On tour now.

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Good catch! Out next week from @wwnorton.com: the first major biography of Luis Alvarez, by Alec Nevala-Lee... bookshop.org/p/books/coll...

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📅 Fri. 6/6 @ 7PM: We join the Harvard University Division of Science in welcoming bestselling author Robert Macfarlane in store for a discussion of his new book "Is a River Alive?". He will be joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jorie Graham. Learn more: buff.ly/LJlDsVm

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@daeganmiller.bsky.social‬ considers the beauty and politics of Robert Macfarlane’s Is A River Alive?

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Huzzah! @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and his readers now and readers to come are sure lucky to have as thoughtful and perceptive a critic as @daeganmiller.bsky.social writing about IS A RIVER ALIVE?

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A torrent of thanks to booksellers, critics, and readers nationwide, and a cascade of congratulations to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social — IS A RIVER ALIVE? debuts at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list!

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I'm thrilled to be in conversation with the esteemed @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social about his gorgeous and important new book, Is A River Alive? Wed June 11th 7PM at @powells.bsky.social www.powells.com/events/rober...

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Join me, Beth Morrison, and 700 #Voynich fans for this Zoom conversation on June 13: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

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Here's a real actual booklist of real actual books about historical adventures in the great outdoors - mine included! 💙📚 I'll add @cassidyrandall.bsky.social's THIRTY BELOW and Jayne Zanglein's THE GIRL EXPLORERS. @bookriot.bsky.social bookriot.com/historical-s...

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Inzaghi's suit is not losing.

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Imagine water otherwise – Robert Macfarlane (who is one of the deepest, most generous thinkers and most beautiful writers of our time) on the personhood of rivers and what makes something alive www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/30/r...

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@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social torrent for torment is the best typo ever, given that it's in the context of Is a River Alive. Regards from the banks of the Seine, which would probably like to be a lot more alive.

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Somerville author and critic Clea Simon reviewed IS A RIVER ALIVE? by Robert Macfarlane in today's @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/21/a...

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Climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its manifestations, is alive. Elizabeth Rush on Robert Macfarlane's new book, "Is a River Alive?":

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12 months of storytelling. Delivered once a month to your home. A post-apocalyptic newspaper.

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With apologies to Clive James... Chill the champagne and polish the goblets! The team of my enemy has been relegated And I am glad.

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Publishing about rivers is alive.

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"Few nature writers working today produce work with the unassuming elegance and undisguised wonder that are evident on @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's every page." ―Colin Dwyer, NPR

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Didn’t know this was the original cover of E.P. Thompson’s classic, until I looked it up for a left-field graduation speech.

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Bibliophiles: don't miss Madeleine Thien's "The Book of Records," a beautiful brain-twister of a novel, just published by @wwnorton.com. Here's my review for @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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