John Clayton is the award-winning author of narrative nonfiction/natural history books including Natural Rivals, The Cowboy Girl, and Wonderlandscape. His website is www.johnclaytonbooks.com.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of two essays about the new book “A Place Called Writer L,” a collection of listserv discussions from the 1990s and 2000s. Tomorrow, co-editor Stuart Warner writes of the origins and ending … Read more