A new book from Dow Farm! Great writers and historic Maine farms have a long history – think E.B. White and “Charlotte’s Web” – and now that magical combination has given us a new book of fables for a new age.
“Metazoan Variations” is a glorious mash-up of Darwin’s science, Aesop’s fables, Jenny Holzer’s Truisms, and Sylvia Plath’s poetry. The reader encounters ants making bread, a farting cuckoo, a moose eating peanut butter sandwiches and other wonders. Each segment offers a pity title, a compressed story, some scientific knowledge, and a moral. It’s satisfying. Bendzela’s tour de force produces a new taxonomy for the 21st century. – Ellen Lansky.
Life in a historic house can influence one’s perspective and inspire one’s creativity, as my friend Mike Bendzela shows in his fabulous new book. Available at: http://ow.ly/wEDd50CBHe4.
Dow Farm is one of 13 beautifully restored houses featured between the how-to chapters of my book “Restoring Your Historic House, The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners.” Photographer David Clough captured these houses in gorgeous photos for the book. The 720-page hardcover book now available in bookstores and from online retailers.
Signed and personalized copies are available directly from me in the shop on this page, click here: Shop – Your Historic House.
Bookstores can order copies from W.W. Norton.
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