When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American. I was surprised to see that When Birds Are Near includes Jonathan Franzen’s “My Bird Problem.” Press, 2011).
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