Really enjoyed this conversation with CBC host Mary Hynes. Here's the link.
Here's the link and here's an excerpt:
"Occasionally a book comes along that has the power to transport readers to a place that many of us, I believe, wonder about, if only in the darkest moments of the night. Howard Axelrod’s memoir, “The Point of Vanishing,” was such a book for me.
It is a brave book. It is also finely crafted, which is what enables it to carry the reader step by step into a dark but illuminating interior space..."
--Frank O Smith
Enjoyed this interview on live Irish radio. To listen, skip ahead about ¾ through the gray playback bar at the top of the screen on this link. If you have time, listen to the opening of segment four of the show, too. Apparently, listeners were keen to know whether the author has a beard. (At the moment, he doesn't.)
My interview with Grub Street, where I've had the pleasure of teaching for the past few years, is now up on their Grub Daily blog. My thanks to Alison Murphy for an engaging conversation. Here's the link.
Here's an excerpt from Derek Sanderson's review in Library Journal, and here's a link to the full review.
"The author tells the tale of his accident, its aftermath, and his sojourn in Vermont, in alternating vignettes, which build beautifully upon one another until readers come to learn about many of the pivotal events in his life. This particularly touching and personal memoir bears obvious comparison to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.VERDICT A deeply felt and moving journey into no longer taking life, or the world around us, for granted."
--Derek Sanderson, Library Journal
Here's the link to my essay, adapted from The Point of Vanishing, about my two years in solitude.
Here's a link to my essay about the anniversary of a personal trauma and the fraught question of commemoration.
For pub day for The Point of Vanishing, Powell's posted this essay I wrote about a memorable sign at Killington in Vermont. Here's the link.
Steven Petrow, the Digital Manners Columnist for USA Today, interviewed me for his column. He gave me the chance to talk about an important topic: how to keep non-digital values alive in a digital age. Here's the link.
Sandee Brawarsky has reviewed my book in the context of the reflective period of the High Holidays. Here's the link. And here's an excerpt.
His first book is an engrossing and deeply affecting memoir, “The Point of Vanishing” (Beacon Press). Alongside Axelrod, the reader also learns to see differently, both in looking and listening to the everyday, and in looking ahead to the future, to better days. With a sense of urgency and a poetic sensibility, he writes about being in nature, searching for meaning and purpose, learning about love and connection. While he speaks several times of being Jewish, he doesn’t turn to prayer, but his meditative passages, his deep noticing of life, feels prayerful.
Read more at http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/books/chapters-introspection#lHOoyzP35S5UIr0B.99
An essay I adapted from The Point of Vanishing is appearing in the Fall issue of VQR. It focuses on the loss of vision to my right eye and on my early efforts to adjust to a world that suddenly looked and felt different. Here's the link to their website. The print version will be available October 1st.