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Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx is the author of “ Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis.”

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3 picks · 1997–2013

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Rough Deeds
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During the next decade, Duquet began to acquire tracts of woodland in Maine. From time to time, Duquet would join Forgeron in the Maine woods to explore …

The Bunchgrass Edge of the World
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Fiction, from 1998: “Ottaline had seen most of what there was to see around her with nothing new in sight.”

Brokeback Mountain
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Fiction by Annie Proulx, from 1997: “They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight.”