Rosen, novelist and New York Times contributor, sets out to explore birdwatching's centrality--historical and literary, spiritual and scientific--to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve.
Jonathan Rosen is the author of The Talmud and The Internet: A Journey between Worlds and the novels Eve's Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is the editorial director of Nextbook. Louise Steinman is a writer and literary curator. Her memoir, The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War, was recently published in a new paperback edition by North Atlantic Press/Random House.