Long-Form Hunting Trips
“Novelists are like fur trappers.
They disappear into the north woods for months or years at a time, sometimes
never to reemerge, giving in to despair out there, or going native (taking a
real job, in other words), or catching their legs in their own traps and
bleeding out, silently, into the snow. The lucky ones return, laden with pelts.”
—Jeffrey Eugenides, novelist, “The Pieces of Zadie Smith,”
New York Times Style Magazine, Oct. 17, 2016
• Editorial Comment: Journalists, too: “Find me a pelt,” the editor roared, “or don’t come back!”
PeezPix by Ted Pease
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