The soils of the North Carolina Piedmont, where I live, are some of the oldest in the world. […]
Author: Jedediah Purdy
Avidly’s North Carolina correspondent, Jedediah Purdy, discovered the magic of Facebook headline editing. Truthiness ensued. […]
1: Alabama Heelsplitter This richly colored Gulf mussel, with a shell like polished leather in a college library, […]
Seamus Heaney taught me in my freshman year of college that the verb “perfect” means nothing more than […]
Monday night, June 10, I was arrested in a mass act of civil disobedience, the sixth in a […]
Seven months and two weeks after my first book was published, I hacked a hardback copy into hundreds […]
I spent a lot of the Sunday afternoon before Valentine’s Day at the Smithsonian exhibit (headed for the Met) […]
For my birthday this year I balanced stones. About a dozen friends walked with me from a local park […]