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Jedediah Purdy

Fragments, Shored

The Wide, Wide World Jedediah Purdy - 1
The soils of the North Carolina Piedmont, where I live, are some of the oldest in the world. They were tuckered well before tobacco...
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7 Most Truthy NYT Columnists

The Wide, Wide World Jedediah Purdy - 2
Avidly's North Carolina correspondent, Jedediah Purdy, discovered the magic of Facebook headline editing. Truthiness ensued.         Jedediah Purdy: A way with rebar.  
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17 Endangered Species That Are Also Bands

I Found This Cool Thing! Jedediah Purdy - 4
1: Alabama Heelsplitter This richly colored Gulf mussel, with a shell like polished leather in a college library, plays bluegrass with a strain of Lynyrd...
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Don’t Be So Earnest

The Wide, Wide World Jedediah Purdy - 1
Seamus Heaney taught me in my freshman year of college that the verb "perfect" means nothing more than to “make through.”  Perfection?  To follow...
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Seven Ways of Looking at a Charge Sheet: or, My First Arrest

Bodies and Minds Jedediah Purdy - 3
Monday night, June 10, I was arrested in a mass act of civil disobedience, the sixth in a growing wave of peaceful protests against...
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Writing and Failure

The Wide, Wide World Jedediah Purdy - 0
Seven months and two weeks after my first book was published, I hacked a hardback copy into hundreds of pieces with a hunting knife. ...
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A Terrible Beauty

The Wide, Wide World Jedediah Purdy - 0
I spent a lot of the Sunday afternoon before Valentine’s Day at the Smithsonian exhibit (headed for the Met) on  “The Civil War and American Art.” ...
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Murmuring Stones

Bodies and Minds Jedediah Purdy - 4
For my birthday this year I balanced stones.  About a dozen friends walked with me from a local park through an oak-and-beech forest to a...
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Maps and Legends

The Wide, Wide World Jedediah Purdy - 1
  Everything and everyone is mapped, many times over.  Satellite views are overlaid with roads, jurisdictions, household income, consumption habits.  I love maps, and as...
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On Landscape

Bodies and Minds Jedediah Purdy - 7
Maybe eight months ago, I began dreaming landscapes.  I live in the middle of North Carolina, a frequently sticky region some three hours southeast...
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