Books by Robert Michael Pyle
“It seems to me that that’s been one of the richest of American genres, and largely overlooked in recent years. And Pyle is a writer who has spent his entire life, all of his writerly activity, writing that kind of easily neglected and overlooked essay—including a wonderful study of the migration patterns of Monarch butterflies, that market my first acquaintance with his mind. It’s not the kind of thing you’re going to find in New York Magazine or for that matter often any more in The New Yorker, but is a vital part of a long golden thread of American work.” Read more...
The Best Essays: the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award
Adam Gopnik, Journalist
Interviews where books by Robert Michael Pyle were recommended
The Best Essays: the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, recommended by Adam Gopnik
Every year, the judges of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay search out the best book of essays written in the past year and draw attention to the author’s entire body of work. Here, Adam Gopnik, writer, journalist and PEN essay prize judge, emphasizes the role of the essay in bearing witness and explains why the five collections that reached the 2021 shortlist are, in their different ways, so important.
