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Stories by Edward Hoagland

Words Can Wiggle, But Can the Planet?

February 4, 2016
Edward Hoagland

Phone booth, bookworm, crowbait, goose as a verb, horse-trading, horse-faced, cowpies or emotionally cowed, and other farm-based figures of speech like kicking the bucket are disappearing as...

Still Asking Why After Half a Century

January 14, 2016
Edward Hoagland

Tuesday, Jan. 12, was the 60th anniversary of the publication of Edward Hoagland’s first book, Cat Man. Since that time Mr. Hoagland has written 25 books, most of them collections of essays....

Schadenfreude, Oh Schadenfreude

December 10, 2015
Edward Hoagland

The lacings of our democracy are knotted and as we bend our nails picking at them, our favorite entertainment seems to be murder mysteries, true crime dramas or concussive sports. Baseball bows to...

Feeling Mugged Not Hugged by Social Media

November 12, 2015
Edward Hoagland

Bicycling and raising children are back in fashion, and even a spectrum of “mindfulness.” So it’s not all sonics, automatons and the blogosphere. But if I try to strike up a...

Nature's Advocate, Sentence by Sentence Over a Lifetime

October 30, 2014
Edward Hoagland

The following is excerpted from an essay written in 1973 by the author and taken from his soon-to-be-released collection of nature essays published by Lyons Press. The book is called On Nature and it...

A Long Career of Paying Attention

November 8, 2012
Edward Hoagland

On Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. Edward Hoagland will speak at the Vineyard Haven Public Library about his 60 years of writing. Mr. Hoagland lives for most of the year in Edgartown and is one of the...

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