Books
Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives. Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt (Boston, MA, 2019)
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light. Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt (Boston, MA, 2010).
Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm. North Point Press/FSG, (New York, NY, 2004).
Five Thousand Days Like This One. Beacon Press (Boston, MA, 1999).
Here And Nowhere Else. Beacon Press (Boston, MA, 1995).
Selected Journal, Newspaper, and Magazine Publications
The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Ohio Review, Salamander, New England Review, Lumina, The Hudson Review, Zócalo Public Square, OnEarth, The Boston Sunday Globe, The Independent (UK), The Huffington Post, Orion
Selected Anthologies
Best American Essays, 1996, Pushcart Prize XXV and XXVIII, The Norton Book of Nature Writing
In Short
Brief Encounters, The Georgia Review Essay Retrospective: The First Fifty Years, The Ohio Review New and Selected 30th Anniversary Issue, The Beacon Best of 1999, The Practical Guide To Writing, Encounters: Readings for Exploration and Argument, Creative Nonfiction: A Guide, One Hundred Great Essays
Past and Current Affiliations
Harvard University, Harvard Extension School, Bowdoin College, The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences