Colin Dickey
Author and Writer at Freelance
New book: Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy (7/23). Also Ghostland & others. Opinions mine. he/him
Articles
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1 week ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Colin Dickey
The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is one of the most remote places on earth—more than 500 miles north of Europe, and about as far from the North Pole, it was entirely uninhabited by humans until the late 19th century, aside for a few early attempts by whalers to overwinter that mostly ended in disaster.
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3 weeks ago |
atlasobscura.com | Colin Dickey
In late summer of 1937, a man named Louis E. Hammond emerged from the tupelo gums and cypresses of the North Carolina wilderness with a 21-pound piece of quartz, onto which had been inscribed a nearly indecipherable, enigmatic message. The Californian had been traveling through on vacation when he’d stopped at Edenton, on the northern shore of Albemarle Sound, near the mouth of the Chowan River.
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3 weeks ago |
newrepublic.com | Colin Dickey
W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his readers wanting more, and ever since, his publishers have increasingly delved deeper into his oeuvre for posthumous releases. Six full-length books have already appeared in English since his death, and now, 23 years after his death, we have the seventh—and perhaps last: Silent Catastrophes: Essays.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Colin Dickey
W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his readers wanting more, and ever since, his publishers have increasingly delved deeper into his oeuvre for posthumous releases. Six full-length books have already appeared in English since his death, and now, 23 years after his death, we have the seventh—and perhaps last: Silent Catastrophes: Essays.
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2 months ago |
atlasobscura.com | Colin Dickey
I’m walking north on Broadway in Manhattan, trying to imagine what seems impossible now: that this land was once wild, an island of swamps and forests that had to be navigated around and cut through.
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