Daegan Miller
@daeganmiller.bsky.social
Essayist and Critic. For all the beautiful radiant things. Book: *This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent* http://bit.ly/2HYSaSK | Essays: http://bit.ly/2Gn3EPM
LOVE the first snowy long run of the winter.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
LOVE the first snowy long run of the winter.
I’m 2/3 of the way through the ecocriticism I’ve been most excited for this year. As with Ensor’s book, it’s hard to overstate the admiration I have for @nathankhensley.bsky.social’s *Action Without Hope*: a brilliant breath of darkly fresh air. On to @royscranton.bsky.social latest!
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I’m 2/3 of the way through the ecocriticism I’ve been most excited for this year. As with Ensor’s book, it’s hard to overstate the admiration I have for @nathankhensley.bsky.social’s *Action Without Hope*: a brilliant breath of darkly fresh air. On to @royscranton.bsky.social latest!
Oh, and this (and then I'll stop, I promise), where you gesture to something ineffable that seems pervasive. It's an excellent essay.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh, and this (and then I'll stop, I promise), where you gesture to something ineffable that seems pervasive. It's an excellent essay.
Really loving this review essay, and it feels like you've gotten right to the core of things.
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Really loving this review essay, and it feels like you've gotten right to the core of things.
From K.A. Hays’s *Anthropocene Lullaby*:
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
From K.A. Hays’s *Anthropocene Lullaby*:
Western Mass friends--on Tuesday, 10/21 I'll be in conversation with @lancerichardson.bsky.social and photog Hans Teensma about Lance's marvelous, monumental new biography of Peter Mathiessen. Join us at Broadside Books, Northampton, 7PM
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Western Mass friends--on Tuesday, 10/21 I'll be in conversation with @lancerichardson.bsky.social and photog Hans Teensma about Lance's marvelous, monumental new biography of Peter Mathiessen. Join us at Broadside Books, Northampton, 7PM
Books are beautiful things.
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Books are beautiful things.
Very much looking forward to my convo w/ Nick Triolo Tues 9/30, 7PM, Odyssey Books in South Hadley, MA. We'll be talking about walking in circles, travel and nature writing, time, character...and his new book, *The Way Around*. Check it out:
www.odysseybks.com/event/nichol...
www.odysseybks.com/event/nichol...
September 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Very much looking forward to my convo w/ Nick Triolo Tues 9/30, 7PM, Odyssey Books in South Hadley, MA. We'll be talking about walking in circles, travel and nature writing, time, character...and his new book, *The Way Around*. Check it out:
www.odysseybks.com/event/nichol...
www.odysseybks.com/event/nichol...
Four years ago, on a dream assignment for an essay with photographer @brentmathison.bsky.social. Looking for the ghost of Eadweard Muybridge under the Thousand Mile Tree in Utah.
September 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Four years ago, on a dream assignment for an essay with photographer @brentmathison.bsky.social. Looking for the ghost of Eadweard Muybridge under the Thousand Mile Tree in Utah.
Good morning from my new favorite tree, this polypore-studded grey birch.
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Good morning from my new favorite tree, this polypore-studded grey birch.
Been looking forward to this one, from @snarlsdickens.bsky.social, for a while:
September 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Been looking forward to this one, from @snarlsdickens.bsky.social, for a while:
Here’s my fave Mary Oliver poem, which I love for its sense of gentle refusal. (Also, I grew up one town over from where this poem is set and, 40 years after her, picked blueberries in this same spot.)
September 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Here’s my fave Mary Oliver poem, which I love for its sense of gentle refusal. (Also, I grew up one town over from where this poem is set and, 40 years after her, picked blueberries in this same spot.)
Can’t heap enough praise on this book, which feels like will become a touchstone of the environmental humanities, the kind of book that bleeds over into serious nonfiction, enviro/nature writing, eco criticism, etc. Just a stunning, brilliant work.
August 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Can’t heap enough praise on this book, which feels like will become a touchstone of the environmental humanities, the kind of book that bleeds over into serious nonfiction, enviro/nature writing, eco criticism, etc. Just a stunning, brilliant work.
Just had reason to revisit this classic, which, for me, was every bit as influential as Cronon’s “The Trouble With Wilderness.” That revisionist turn feels a very long time ago—the mid 90s!—and it is a strange feeling to reapproach these essays with a feeling of nostalgia.
August 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just had reason to revisit this classic, which, for me, was every bit as influential as Cronon’s “The Trouble With Wilderness.” That revisionist turn feels a very long time ago—the mid 90s!—and it is a strange feeling to reapproach these essays with a feeling of nostalgia.
So sad to see this (from the newest London Review of Books):
August 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
So sad to see this (from the newest London Review of Books):
There’s no mail day quote like new Chicago Manual of Style mail day.
August 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There’s no mail day quote like new Chicago Manual of Style mail day.
Can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to @royscranton.bsky.social’s newest.
August 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to @royscranton.bsky.social’s newest.
Only 30 pages in, which is far enough to say this is an absolutely stunning book (unsurprisingly—Sarah Ensor is the most brilliant thinker I’ve had the privilege of knowing).
August 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Only 30 pages in, which is far enough to say this is an absolutely stunning book (unsurprisingly—Sarah Ensor is the most brilliant thinker I’ve had the privilege of knowing).
Camus, ever the rebel:
July 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Camus, ever the rebel:
Camus on Hope and progress:
July 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Camus on Hope and progress:
One of my most anticipated academic books of the year, from @nathankhensley.bsky.social. Had my credit card not been stolen a little while back, I would have had this in my hands on the day it pubbed!
July 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
One of my most anticipated academic books of the year, from @nathankhensley.bsky.social. Had my credit card not been stolen a little while back, I would have had this in my hands on the day it pubbed!
Out of the blue, one of my closest friends sent me this vintage Grateful Dead belt buckle. Once in a while you get shown the light, indeed.
July 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Out of the blue, one of my closest friends sent me this vintage Grateful Dead belt buckle. Once in a while you get shown the light, indeed.
Emily Dickinson on the sparkling, apophatic nothing:
July 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Emily Dickinson on the sparkling, apophatic nothing:
Love this idea! Here are some of the books I’ve been spending time with:
July 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Love this idea! Here are some of the books I’ve been spending time with: