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Thomas McNamee

Thomas McNamee  is the author of The Inner Life of Cats, The Killing of Wolf Number Ten, and other books.

Summer on the Sweet Grass

Summer on the Sweet Grass

Notes from a Montana ranch

by Thomas McNamee | Thursday, June 20, 2019

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Figures in the Frame

by Walter Nicklin

One thing we’ve learned from the past year and a half is that slowing down and staying in one place for a while isn’t always so bad. This is what Walter Nicklin learned while spending his quarantine in coastal Maine, where he goes each summer. “Coronavirus reframes everything, and I’m now thinking the previously unthinkable: that other people’s presence actually enhances the view,” he wrote. “They and I are now sharing not only the same prospect but also a common enemy.”

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