Reviews for Nature Addresses And Lectures

The average rating for Nature Addresses And Lectures based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-08-20 00:00:00 Trever Turner Collected magazine articles the author wrote in the late 1990s/early 2000s. In my favorite ones, the premium is on the reporting and not so much on the voice; you know within the first two paragraphs what the story is going to be about, except in a very few of his pieces that take a loping approach. That said, I think he has a pretty terrific personal voice/style and he knows when to end a paragraph and not follow every single digression that magically presents itself. He doesn't seem to have fallen hopelessly in love with his own words; there's a melancholy thread through all of it. Many of his peers at magazines can take any assignment and turn it into a quest for the new definition of manliness (or the meaning of the universe) vis-a-vis tragedy or popular culture. He's got a little of that too, but not too much, not to a distracting degree.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-03-14 00:00:00 Michelle Jennings Samuels is the quintessential slacker journalist - a beautiful writer who tramps around places talking to whoever he comes across, not really all that interested in wherever he is (a Superbowl, a dog track, a blimp...) but recording it all with a detached melancholy interspersed with moments of brilliant insight.