Other Writing

An analysis of Annie Dillard's emphasis on fall in her work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

"The dark night into which the year was plunging was not a sleep but an awakening, a new and necessary austerity, the sparer climate for which I longed. The shed trees were brittle and still, the creek light and cold, and my spirit holding its breath.” A. Dillard

An analysis of how advances in science have changed our relationship to nature as portrayed in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

A comparative analysis of social interaction and commentary in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden."

"Readers of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a work in many ways reminiscent of Walden, are usually disappointed by its virtual neglect of society. It is accomplished, says Hayden Carruth, “with little reference to life on this planet at this moment, its hazards and misdirections, and to this extent it is a dangerous book, literally a subversive...