Robin Wall Kimmerer

1 month ago | readmorebooks.co | Robin Wall Kimmerer |Jeremy Anderberg

Here’s what is on tap this week: A review of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding SweetgrassA book rec re: the 5-year anniversary of COVID shutting down the worldAn excerpt from what I wrote about the pandemic in mid-March 2020 Quick programming note: Next week I’ll be enjoying a Spring Break vacation with the family. I have a discussion thread scheduled for Tuesday, but I’ll be skipping next Friday. Read More Books is a reader-supported publication.

2 months ago | nekocase.substack.com | Robin Wall Kimmerer |Neko Case

It’s just at sub zero temperature here in Vermont. -3. These days with the crystal skies and the Maxfield Parrish colors at dawn and dusk. The deepest, back-lit blue to orange rainbow that makes up the whole sky. The pinhole stars. All the animals in the house use me as a heating pad. I fake complain but I like it. I’m so grateful that they love me. It’s too cold to walk Coco as it hurts her paws and my face.

Dec 11, 2024 | kansascity.com | Robin Wall Kimmerer |John Burgoyne

When Emergence magazine asked " Braiding Sweetgrass" author Robin Wall Kimmererto write a story about economics, she was not an obvious choice. "I think I said, 'I don't know anything about economics. I'm a botanist," said Kimmerer. "But, in conversation, I realized I know a great deal about the economies of nature. And to think about the ways the natural world delivers goods and services for the flourishing of all things - that is economics.

Dec 4, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch |Ed Nawotka |Robin Wall Kimmerer

The 2024 holiday season officially kicked off on November 29, and booksellers are reporting strong sales despite a late start to the season and obstacles confronting some stores. In Washington, D.C., Kamala Harris, VP of the United States, was spotted checking out the cookbooks at Bold Fork Books on Small Business Saturday. Mahogany Books, which closed its District location in August while its owners search for a new location, is operating a pop-up at the monthlong downtown outdoor holiday market.

Dec 3, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Robin Wall Kimmerer |Alexis Burling

Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World.” Photo: Portrait courtesy MacArthur Foundation / Book cover courtesy ScribnerIn 2013, Minneapolis publisher Milkweed Editions published Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass,” a then little-known collection of essays that explored the symbiotic relationship between plants, the land and humans through an Indigenous lens. It sold some copies but didn’t get much mainstream attention.