Priscilla Long
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fur-Covered TeacupThirteen Ways of Looking at a Fur-Covered Teacup
Visual artist Meret Oppenheim and poet Wallace Stevens: Their strangely synchronous lives and work. |
Selected WorksScience/Memoir/Reflection
My every-Wednesday blog-column on how science rubs up against the rest of life.
The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember.
This creative nonfiction on the Human Genome Project appeared in The American Scholar and won the National Magazine Award in 2006.
Art and Life
This creative nonfiction comparing Wallace Stevens and Meret Oppenheim appears on Web Conjunctions.
History of Coal Mining
"A very well-written and well-researched history of the American coal industry from its earliest days through the 1920s." –Choice
"An intense and accomplished social history." –Christopher Hitchens, New York Newsday
"One of those rare works that asks and answers important questions about who we are...as a nation and how we got to that point."–Barbara Kingsolver, Women's Review of Books
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