The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

In conversation with Louise Steinman, curator of ALOUD
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
01:11:46
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Episode Summary
Rosen, novelist and New York Times contributor, sets out to explore birdwatching's centrality--historical and literary, spiritual and scientific--to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve.

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Jonathan Rosen is the author of The Talmud and The Internet: A Journey between Worlds and the novels Eve's Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is the editorial director of Nextbook.


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