One of my favorite writers has a new novel out (her second after her fabulous The Living).
It gets a glowing review in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/books/25gree.html?ref=books
For those unfamiliar with Dillard's work, start with her Pulitzer-Prize winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It's a meditation on nature and its seasons, told as a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in Tinker Creek, Virginia. The aforementioned The Living is a magnificent novel set in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. Also, For the Time Being is an intriguing book discussing, among other things, the natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, and the obstetrical ward.
She's granted the Washington Post a rare interview that can be read here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062101900.html
In other Dillard news, unfortuantely it looks as though, according to New York Magazine, she may be retiring:
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/34011/
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