Shortlisted for the 2026 Reading The West Book Award in Memoir/Biography
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
From the author of bestseller The Man Who Quit Money, this collection of personal essays recounts 20 years of Mark Sundeen's gonzo journalism, political activism, and steadfast humanism in the modern American West.
In these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultural and political events of the new millennium, from Howard Dean’s presidential campaign to the Iraq War protests and the NoDAPL uprising in Standing Rock. But what brings these large phenomena into humanistic focus is the cast of idiosyncratic people he meets. Using first-person reportage, well-crafted storytelling, and wry, self-deprecating humor, Sundeen’s keen observations illustrate what everyday life is like for people in the contemporary American West, with all their systemic precarities and individual triumphs.
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Green Green Grass of Home
- Why Noah Went to the Woods
- The Cave Dreamer
- The Man Who Would Be Jack London
- A Buick Toward the Apocalypse
- The Dropout in Your Inbox
- Too Much Fun for Just One State
- Cave Men
- The Fortress of Nice
- Potter and Keats
- Tinier Than Thou
- Uprising at Standing Rock
- Last Days at Standing Rock
- How the Mighty Have Fallen
- The Shinglewide
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
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