Coyote Crossing

A very generous review

Elizabeth Eslami has written an extraordinarily generous review of Walking With Zeke.

Just the one line about Ed Abbey, Rick Bass and Barry Lopez will I think keep me grinning for the next week or so:

He’s a less prickly Ed Abbey, a tougher Rick

Emergency Walking With Zeke sale to benefit Berkeley Humane Society

Last night a terrible thing happened at the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society:

Breaking News:  In the early morning of May 20, a major fire destroyed a large section of our shelter.  We lost our entire cat sheltering area as well as laundry

Walking With Zeke excerpt

Apropos of not much other than that the trickle of sales of my book Walking With Zeke has slowed a bit, here’s a piece of said book. Like what you see? You can buy it here.  Have a copy already? Tell a friend, write a review on Walking With Zeke‘s

About the book

Writing proceeds apace on the Joshua tree book. I’ve finished a chapter that introduces the dynamics of the grass-fire cycle, and am getting ready to dive into the next one without stopping for breath.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking spurred by

I wrote a book

True, it’s old news to some of you that I wrote a book about my adventures with my friend Zeke. There are a lot of new people traipsing through here unexpectedly, though. Not coincidentally, it looks like the huge crowds of new folks — as welcome

Walking With Zeke gets reviewed

I just noticed these new reviews on the Walking With Zeke order page. It’s particularly gratifying to know that the book is slowly making its way through the grapevine.

By Robert Hatch
A neighbor saw me walking my dog one day and said, “You

Desert rain

This is a first draft of chapter three of the J Tree book, to be read tonight at the Writers Group. Again, like previous chapters, it won’t be here forever, but I thought I’d maximize the feedback possibilities in this new age of open-source

Zeke has a Facebook page

For those of you on Facebook, consider checking out (and becoming a fan of) Walking With Zeke’s Facebook page. We’re sharing dog photos over there, and an excerpt from the book every few … (continues)

Save big money by buying poetry

My recent collection of verse, A Tapetum Knowledge, was selling for 19.99 when I first released it a few months back. I’ve decided to drop the price to 12.99, starting now. (I realize that this may be annoying to those who bought it at the higher

A Tapetum Knowledge

A Tapetum Knowledge, the long-awaited-by-me collection of my poetry, is now available for purchase. 94 pages, 19.99. … (continues)

Five years ago this week

An excerpt from Walking with Zeke:

March 23, 2004
We’ve named the rabbit Thistle. Or he named himself: that was the one name he responded to at all. Smart bunny: the second-runner-up name was “Stu.”

Thistle was running around in the back yard

My virtual doggy

Those of you who have a Kindle, or who have downloaded the Kindle app to your iPhone or iPod, may be interested to know that my book Walking with Zeke is now available in Kindle format at what is, quite honestly, a painfully low price: $3.99. That

The Open Laboratory 2009: open for nominations

Since 2006, the Open Laboratory series has taken the best writing first published on science-oriented blogs and published it in book form. (I have an essay in each of the volumes for 2006 and 2007. I must have been distracted somehow last year.)  … (continues)

The Zeke Book

Those of you buying gifts this month may, he reminded everyone sidelong, want to consider the Zeke Book for dog-loving recipients. Or for animal-loving recipients in general. Especially for those with older pets. I’ve heard from a lot of people