Knowing that the Cape is more than tourist-riddled beaches and overpriced ice cream, Michael Thurston takes us on a late-summer retread of one of Thoreau's most famous walks. Blending travel writing and literary criticism, Thurston takes us along two centuries of the shore, reconsidering the dreadful shipwreck of the St. John, and considering the pliability of a hand-painted postcard. From artists like Joel Meyerwitz and Edward Hopper, to statesman John Hay and cinematographer Robert Richardson. CAPE COD, REVISITED is more than a beach read; it's a tapestry of geological history, personal memoir, and Thoreau's transcendent ability to measure that line between the beach and the boundless sea.
Michael Thurston lives in Northampton, MA, and teaches at Smith College. He is the author of Houses from Another Street (Levellers 2019) and of several books and numerous essays on modern poetry and fiction.
Russ Rymer has been awarded the 2013 Ed Cunningham Award for Best Magazine Reporting from Abroad by the Overseas Press Club, for his article about Vanishing Languages in National Geographic. He is the author of several books of nonfictin, including Genie—A Scientific Tragedy and American Beach—A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory. His novel, Paris Twilight, was published by Harper Collings Harcourt in 2013.
