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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dre...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ted Chiang said the book gave him a sense of religious ecstasy through its meditation on nature's wonders.

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I can't really point to a conventional religious text as an atheist, but I guess I would say Annie Dillard's book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. That is a book about feeling the wonders of nature and exper...

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Ted Chiang said the book gave him a sense of religious ecstasy through its meditation on nature's wonders.

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I can't really point to a conventional religious text as an atheist, but I guess I would say Annie Dillard's book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. That is a book about feeling the wonders of nature and experiencing those as a way of being close to the divine.

Freakonomics Radio

Podcast

Freakonomics Radio

It was mentioned as a book that inspired Kevin Kelly to write and filled him with excitement, highlighting Annie Dillard's genius and his personal connection to her work.

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Favorite author is Andy Dillard and her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was something that just made me want to write and I can read that any time of day or night and just be filled with excitement and I...

— Episode: 193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip

Episode: 193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip

It was mentioned as a book that inspired Kevin Kelly to write and filled him with excitement, highlighting Annie Dillard's genius and his personal connection to her work.

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Favorite author is Andy Dillard and her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was something that just made me want to write and I can read that any time of day or night and just be filled with excitement and I read anything by her and to me she's just genius.

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