Bass, Rick | David Long (essay date 26 June 1995)
David Long (essay date 26 June 1995)
SOURCE: Long, David. “Rick Bass: Lessons from the Wilderness.” Publishers Weekly 242, no. 26 (26 June 1995): 83-4.
[In the following essay, Long highlights the development of Bass's writing career, his writing process, and the intersection of his fiction and environmental activism.]
Montana has bred, or attracted, more than its share of writers, but few have craved its isolation or valued its wildness with the passion of Rick Bass. “Do I want more society or less? I think the question is going in the wrong direction,” he says. “In our society it's going to be hard to get enough remoteness, or enough time with one's self. I wouldn't be so cornball as to say I think all the great lessons that lie ahead of us are to be found in the woods, but the more time I spend here, the more I'm impressed with the way we ignore what's in the woods.”
It's a cool spring day when...
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