Thoreau Today

Henry David Thoreau in the Literature and Culture of the 21st Century

Questions and Findings by Chris Dodge

Thoreau in a list of names (redux), Thoreau (allegedly) on electric lighting (if not TV and computers), a Walden about rats, ice-out dates, and other bibliographic gleanings in the May/June 2009 issue

Previous editions:

March/April 2009 (Thoreau as a goad, in a lesbian comic strip, among a dead person's bric-a-brac, and in a Recession Survival Box)

January/February 2009 (More Thoreau tchotchkes, Thoreau and Lassie, a new book about Thoreau)

November/December 2008 (Thoreau and climate change, Thoreau tchotchkes, Thoreau and Mormons)

September/October 2008 (Thoreau in art, another mysterious attribution, a Walden misquote)

August 2008 (Thoreau in self-help books, teen lit, and graphic-novel format)

June/July 2008 ("Different Drummer" everywhere, Thoreau in the NBA, more impersonators and questionable attributions, string quartets inspired by Thoreau's stay in his Walden cabin)

May 2008 (Thoreau and the IRS, Filipino political prisoners, Thoreau impersonators, tree houses, camping in Walden Woods)

April 2008 (Thoreau and birding--and global warming, Thoreau in Asia--and compared to Beethoven, Thoreau and the U.S. economy)

March 2008 (Thoreau's difficult handwriting, his trouble identifying birds, "The living Thoreau," Thoreau-in-Maine map, Thoreau in a list of names again)

February 2008 (Thoreau in [fill in the blank] redux, more Thoreau in contemporary obituaries, Thoreau drinking wine and "not a big fan of winter")

January 2008 (Un-Thoreauvians, Michael Dirda on corrupted texts, a quote attributed to Thoreau and Jack Paar)

December 2007 (Thoreau in contemporary obituaries, Thoreau in sculpture, the "men's huts" movement)

October/November 2007 (Thoreau in architecture, Thoreau and national parks, schools named after Thoreau)

September 2007 (Thoreau's prose as an example of good writing, a high school student on Thoreau, another Thoreauvian greeting card, more misquotes)

August 2007 (Thoreau and ice cream; Thoreau and Joan Baez, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Annie Dillard, Mary Oliver, and Jane Kenyon)

July 2007 (Garrison Keillor, portraits of Thoreau, "Thoreau" as a middle name)

May/June 2007 ("Walden Pond, Fifth Avenue style"; Thoreau on a bookmark; Thoreau and Samuel Clemens and Kurt Vonnegut)

April 2007 (Thoreau in Joe Weider's Muscle and Fitness Magazine, a current interest in 1848, and another dubious quote)

March 2007 (Thoreau and yoga, using Thoreau to sell tea, Walden as a self-help book)

February 2007 (Thoreau to Guant�namo, rubber ducks and other flotsam, Thoreau in art and in lists of names, Thoreau read by prisoners)

January 2007 (Butchering Thoreau--more misquotes, Thoreau at the movies, Walden as bibliotherapy)

December 2006 (Thoreau in poetry, more Thoreauvian errors, Thoreau in a string of names)

November 2006 (Thoreau on a pillow, more from Ed Abbey, Thoreau in jail redux, googling "Hank Thoreau," "Son of Thoreau")

October 2006 (Emerson's alleged exchange of words with jailed Thoreau, marketers of a sleep mask perpetuate a misquote, Thoreau Samplers, an assertion that Thoreau lived in Minneapolis )

September 2006 (Thoreau greeting cards)

August 2006 ("Thoreau" misspelled, spurious versions of "quiet desperation")

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