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The American writer Edward Abbey was an anarchist, an environmentalist, a desert wanderer, and an absolute joy to read. He was known by his friends as “Cactus Ed.” No one, I believe, has written more poetically than he about the southwest landscape of America. The desert to Abbey was ...

In July and August 2005, I spent two weeks in Ireland. Most of it was with a tour group via a public radio station, before I stayed at a Dublin hostel for three days. Oscar Wilde House, where he grew up Oddly, the Abbey doesn’t allow patrons into the auditorium until a quarter till e...