“The Man Who Hit the Mother Lode”—the WSJ review of THE BONANZA KING
Here’s “The Man Who Hit the Mother Lode,” by Patrick Cooke for the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal, July 7 & 8, 2018. (Clicking...
My thoughts on books
Here’s “The Man Who Hit the Mother Lode,” by Patrick Cooke for the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal, July 7 & 8, 2018. (Clicking...
Here's "What's Written in the Wind," my review of How to Read Nature by Tristan Gooley for "The Wall Street Journal," December 16 & 17, 2017. "[Mr. Goole...
Here’s “Things You Don't Tell Your Mudder,” my review of "It Takes a Tribe" by Will Dean and co-author Tim Adams in "The Wall Street Journal," Friday, October 1...
This one was fun! In it we get "marijuana, psychotropic mushrooms, sex, angst, friendships, cultural commentary, testicular cancer and lots of beer."
Here's my latest book review, "Beholding Hell Before Age 20," of John Freely's "The House of Memory," which appeared in The Wall Street Journal on March 16, 201...
My review of "Valley Walls: A Memoir of Climbing & Living in Yosemite" by Glen Denny, in today's WSJ: Congealed bloodstains dripping down the sides of a fl...
Here's "Climb Every Mountain," my review of Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering by Maurice Isserman in the May 1, 2016 issue of The New Yor...
"... a paean to the power of education and its potential to peacefully revolutionize a violent nation."
"More than 4,000 people have reached the top of Everest. Only 376 have ever held K2’s 28,251-foot summit beneath their cold, booted feet..."
Alex Honnold is probably the most interesting climber active in the world today. Here’s “Free Spirit,” my review of Honnold’s new book A...