Sy Montgomery, author of “The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty”

Duncan — Wed, 11 May 2022 04:00:40 +0000

Sy Montgomery—the bestselling author of 30-plus books, including “The Soul of an Octopus” and “The Good Good Pig”—discusses what prompted the exploration of raptors and falconry at the core of her new book, “The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty” (adapted and expanded from a chapter in Montgomery’s 2019 collection, “Birdology.”) She responds to my […]

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Helen Macdonald, author of “H is for Hawk”

Duncan — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 04:00:27 +0000

Helen Macdonald—author of “H is for Hawk,” a wildly-acclaimed, multifaceted memoir that recounts Macdonald’s struggle with the debilitating grief spawned by her father’s sudden death, and her singular solution to that struggle: training a goshawk, a large and particularly fierce bird of prey—explains that at 37, she had not yet experienced profound loss, so her […]

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Sy Montgomery, author of “The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty”

Helen Macdonald, author of “H is for Hawk”