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Derided as "Never Cry Wrap" by critics inside Walt Disney during its seeemingly interminable gestation, Carroll Ballard and John Houston's film of Farley Mowat's autobiographical classic, Never Cry Wolf, turned into a classic of its own sort. This story by Bruce Brown about how the film was made originally appeared in the October 16, 1983 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Bruce Brown praises Edward Abbey's Beyond the Wall and gets hate mail from the irrasible Abbey in return! This review originally appeared in the April 1, 1984 Washington Post Book World. Baseballs ricochet off everything in sight in "Baseball in Cuba" by Bruce
Brown. Originally published in the July 1984 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, it
remains the best history of Cuban baseball available in English. A literary snapshot of Washington in 1984 when Raymond Carver, Frank Herbert and Tom Robbins were in their prime, this piece by Bruce Brown originally appeared in the May 16, 1984 Washington Post Book World. This true fish story by Bruce Brown originally appeared in the June 1984 issue of Field & Stream. Bruce Brown encounters David Beaty, the father of wildlife radio telemetry, in Seattle in 1984. This piece originally appeared in National Wildlife, and then was published again in the form you see here in the May 9, 1984 Seattle Weekly. Bruce Brown explores the literature and science of the aurora in a piece that appeared (in somewhat different forms) in the New York Times Magazine and the March 1985 issue of National Wildlife. Remember: when the big one hits, you heard it here first. Bruce Brown and his ex-wife, Lane Morgan, lose their way on the dangerously metaphoric
terrain of Kloochman Rock in the Olympic Peninsula rain forest. Originally published in
the New York Times Magazine in August 1985, this story was later anthologized in Island
of Rivers. The man who put American literature on the academic map -- and founded the Oklahoma
Sooner football program -- takes a bow. Bruce Brown's 1985 profile was rejected by American
Heritage magazine because it wasn't hostile enough to the liberal Parrington. The Karen Silkwood nuclear fuel safety controvery takes an unexpected turn at the end,
which you won't find in the movie. This investigative piece by Bruce Brown originally
appeared in the December 7, 1985 New York Times. An intriguing -- and nearly forgotten -- American classic is reconsidered by Bruce
Brown. These two reviews of Opal Whiteley's The Journal of an Understanding Heart
appeared in the Washington Post Book World in 1985 and 1986. Bruce Brown chronicles the birth of a new sport -- fish watching. This story originally
appeared in the September 1986 issue of Audubon magazine. How a very clever and well-connected man was able to continue raping children who came into his charge for decades -- both as a teacher and as a judge -- is examined by Bruce Brown, who as a high school student was co-editor of the Lakeside Tatler when Gary Little taught at Seattle's prestigeous Lakeside School. Bruce Brown tours legendary Northwest literary ground -- or water -- via kayak in this visit to LaConner and Fishtown, the bohemian writers' community at the mouth of the North Fork Skagit River. This story originally appeared in the July 1988 issue of State magazine. Ron Chernow's sprawling, National Book Award-winnning portrait of America's pre-eminent merchant banking empire, The House of Morgan, is reviewed by Bruce Brown. This piece originally ran in the March 18, 1990 Washington Post Book World. Controversial and quixotic, the Sumas Astonisher was founded by Bruce Brown as a
"Flood Lost and Found List" to catalogue flotsam found around the little border
town of Sumas, WA, after an exceptionally bad flood in late 1990. Bruce Brown reviews Lawrence Thornton's Ghost Woman. This piece originally appeared in the June 1992 issue of Washington Post Book World. Bruce Brown delves into the mysteries of mutual bond fund performance metrics in this piece from the September 1994 issue of Kiplinger's Magazine. Bruce Brown explores the dark reality of PC operating systems -- and details how to crash them all -- in this piece from the August 1995 issue of Byte. From late 1994 through late 1999, Bruce Brown wrote more than 100 influencial and widely read pieces for BugNet, which he founded and built into the world's leading supplier of PC bug fixes. The private heart of one of the new extreme sports -- mountain biking -- is examined in this 2002 essay by Bruce Brown, who holds the world record for climbing on a mountain bike. This was also the first of Bruce Brown's column, The Skinny. THERE ARE MANY dogs in the world, but as with people, only a few good ones. This is about a very good dog named Smokey, who died on January 29, 2006. © Copyright 1973 - 2008 by Bruce Brown Astonisher and Astonisher.com
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