Get your eyes on the Mississippi, y'all. We haven't seen anything like this since I started writing the book in 2020. Or more than that: my friend John Ruskey is telling me in his 30 years on the river he's never seen it come up so fast.

Thanks, NASA, we're doing great down here...
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/natura...

I've never been but I love to see this and will have to go soon. Maybe after I next pick up some shrimp at the Westwego Lot.

www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

With Outside magazine all but over, I wanted to compile a list of longform stories set in the South. Sadly, again and again, I’m finding this screen. What a loss.

Good book mail

Louisiana campground rules

I do think watershed matters here; the size of the Mississippi, both its watershed and its floodplain, drew a particularly rapacious vision of capitalism. The resulting engineering, physical and social, has left what I sometimes call a scar of poverty on the map of the country.

I’m honored but curious - why am I suddenly accumulating followers by the dozens

🙏🙏🙏

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Delighted to see my essay on the ethics of meat-eating, told through the lens of the chicken, picked up in Longreads’ weekly top 5 stories!
www.noemamag.com/the-unending...

ARC time. Holler at me.

Conceiving of a "Gulf of Mexico watershed" "inclusively captures Louisiana’s interactions with Gulf and Caribbean communities, as well as those in our hinterland, in centuries past and today."

64parishes.org/of-basins-an...

This appears to be the cover. Get to your neighborhood bookstore 6/11/24...

very badass title for this paper in a legal journal

"Down went the bear stark dead, slain in the canebrake in true hunter fashion,” Teddy Roosevelt wrote in Scribner’s in 1907. Today on Southlands: the past and future of the black bear in the South--a rare predator that is abundant and imperiled at once southlands.substack.com/p/field-guid...