#1641: Terry Tempest Williams’ “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”

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#1641: Terry Tempest Williams’ “Erosion: Essays of Undoing” | The Book Show

Dec 31 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Terry Tempest Williams is renowned for her singular body of literature on the environment and our experiences of home. Her new book “Erosion: Essays of Undoing,” explores this connection, particularly to her home state of Utah, as an evolutionary process and how our undoing of the self, self-centeredness, extractive capitalism, fear, tribalism can also be […]

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