Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
By Andrew Furman. University Press of Florida, 2025.
Wings and talons clatter against a windowpane. Foxes den under a deck. Pines stand in quarter-acre lots, recalling a vanished forest. In this book, Andrew Furman explores touchpoints between his everyday suburban life and the environment in South Florida, contemplating his place in a subtropical landscape stretching from the Everglades to the warm Atlantic coast.
Transportive vignettes of encounters in the natural world blend with ordinary, all-too-relatable stories of home and family life in these chapters. ...
ASLE Spotlight 2024-25, EPISODE 4: REPRODUCING ANIMALITY
This episode was recorded Friday, February 21, 2025
Co-hosts: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond and Kathryn Kirkpatrick
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:Jennie Case, We Are Animals
We Are Animals examines moments in Case’s life when her experience as a woman in twenty-first-century America came in conflict with her experience as a child-bearing mammal. From the surprising salve of parasocial interactions on baby forums to the not so surprisingly intertwined history of industrial dairy farming and wearable breast pumps, Case explores an array of realities that give historical and cultural context to the experience ...