A Room of One’s Own: In Praise of Seclusion in the Service of Craft
Ben Shattuck Shares What He Loves Most About His Writing Space
July 9, 2024
By Ben Shattuck
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Ben Shattuck
Ben Shattuck is the author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, which was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Indie Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793. He is also the director and founder of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency.
Seeking Respite in Landscape: On Following Henry David Thoreau’s Walks
Ben Shattuck Traces the Beginnings of a Journey
April 19, 2022
By Ben Shattuck
The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside
"I’d Rather Be Huddled Somewhere and a Little Underprepared"
May 14, 2018
By Ben Shattuck
In an Arctic That Never Was, and Will Soon Be No More
A Lost Note from a Long-Dead Explorer Prophesies the End of the Polar Ice
December 4, 2015
By Ben Shattuck
There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket
On the wives of whalers and their dildos, aka "he's-at-homes"
October 16, 2015
By Ben Shattuck
