Field Notes on Listening
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43. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening
I finished rereading Kit Dobson’s wonderful Field Notes on Listening on the flight (appropriately) to Calgary. I wrote about it last year, and I stand by everything I said then. In fact, I may have been stinting with my praise. I’ll be talking to Kit next Wednesday at walk-listen-create’s writer’s salon; you can join us … Continue reading 43. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening →
• 41. Kit Dobson, Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada
I picked up a copy of Kit Dobson’s Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada because I’m interviewing him for a Walk-Listen-Create event in a couple of weeks (details about this event are here). Our conversation will focus on his book Field Notes on Listening (which I’ve blogged about here), but I wanted to prepare more thoroughly … Continue reading 41. Kit Dobson, Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada →
• 37. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening
Like Jenna Butler’s Revery: A Year of Bees, I’m teaching Kit Dobson’s Field Notes on Listening this summer, and rereading it in preparation for last week’s classes was a revelation: I had forgotten it was so good. The book is structured like a musical composition, with three movements bracketed by a prelude and a coda, . The prelude … Continue reading 37. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening →
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