First published 2014
This collection examines what remains to discover in America after cartographers have charted every territory and explorers have claimed every frontier. Ten writers including McGuane, David Treuer, Anne Carson, Anthony Doerr, Martin Amis, Andrew Motion, Callan Wink, Claire Vaye Watkins, Melinda Moustakis, and Mona Simpson venture into wilderness both literal and symbolic. Their contributions map the spaces that resist documentation. Some writers track physical landscapes that still hold secrets. Others navigate the untamed regions of human experience that no surveyor can measure. The collection asks whether true wilderness survives in a nation where satellites photograph every acre and GPS locates every address. These authors discover that the wild persists in unexpected forms, hidden in plain sight across America's supposedly tamed geography.
Genres: anthologies, american-fiction, american, adventure, contemporary, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, journey
Setting: America
Period: 21st-century
256 pages · Paperback · Granta