High Tide in Tucson_ Essays From Now or Never - Barbara Kingsolver [111]
“How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life” is based on an address to the American Library Association Convention, New Orleans, June 1993.
“Life Without Go-Go Boots” appeared in Lands’ End catalog, Spring 1990, and in the Denver Post, April 22, 1990.
“The Household Zen” appeared in different form as “A Clean Sweep,” in the New York Times Magazine, December 30, 1990.
A much shorter version of “Semper Fi” was published under the title “Ah, Sweet Mystery of…Well, Not Exactly Love,” in Smithsonian, June 1990.
“The Muscle Mystique” appeared as “After a Finger Workout, It’s Great Pumping Iron,” in Smithsonian, September 1990.
“Somebody’s Baby” is loosely based on an essay entitled “Everybody’s Somebody’s Baby,” published in the New York Times Magazine, February 9, 1992, and “License to Love,” in Parenting, November 1994.
“Paradise Lost” appeared in different form as “Where the Map Stopped,” in “The Sophisticated Traveler,” the New York Times Magazine, May 17, 1992.
“Confessions of a Reluctant Rock Goddess” appeared in different form as a chapter in Midlife Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude, Dave Marsh, ed., Viking, 1994.
“Stone Soup” appeared in different form in Parenting, January 1995.
“The Spaces Between” is loosely based on an article entitled “Native American Culture Comes Alive in Phoenix,” Architectural Digest, June 1993.
A brief portion of “Postcards from the Imaginary Mom” appeared in I Should Have Stayed Home, Roger Rapoport and Marguerita Castanera, eds., Book Passage Press, 1994.
“The Memory Place” appeared as a chapter in Heart of the Land, Joseph Barbato and Lisa Weinerman, eds., Pantheon, 1995.
“The Vibrations of Djoogbe” appeared in different form as “An Ancient Kingdom of Mystery and Magic” in “The Sophisticated Traveler,” the New York Times Magazine, September 12, 1993.
“Infernal Paradise” appeared in slightly different form as “Hawaii Preserved,” in “The Sophisticated Traveler,” the New York Times Magazine, March 5, 1995.
Portions of “In the Belly of the Beast” appeared in the Tucson Weekly, July 2, 1986.
“Jabberwocky” is adapted from an address to the American Booksellers’ Convention, 1993, and several other lectures.
“The Forest in the Seeds” appeared in different form in Natural History, October 1993.
“Careful What You Let in the Door” is adapted from an address given as part of the San Francisco Arts & Lectures series, 1993.
“The Not-So-Deadly Sin” was published in Waterstone’s Writers Diary, London, 1995.
About the Author
BARBARA KINGSOLVER’s ten published books include novels, collections of short stories, poetry, essays, and an oral history. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts.
Ms. Kingsolver grew up in Kentucky and earned a graduate degree in biology before becoming a full-time writer. With her husband, Steven Hopp, she co-writes articles on natural history, plays jazz, gardens, and raises two daughters. Their family divides its time between Tucson, Arizona, and a farm in southern Appalachia.
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Praise
“The acclaimed novelist’s extraordinary powers of observation and understanding of character serve her beautifully in this collection of essays.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“A delightful, challenging, and wonderfully informative book.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“A book full of discoveries.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Whether cultural, personal, or theoretical, Kingsolver’s nonfiction is a delight.”
—Seattle Times
“Ms. Kingsolver possesses the rare ability to see the natural world with the keenness of both the poet and the naturalist.”
—Washington Times
“Brilliant…lucid, well thought-out, and remarkably sensitive.