Man Bites Log: The Unlikely Adventures of a City Guy in the Maine Woods, by Max Alexander
ISBN: 0-7867-1412-3
Max Alexander had been the executive editor of Variety and was a senior editor at People magazine when he decided that the glitz of Hollywood and the glamour of New York didn’t quite hold the allure they once had. So. Family in tow, Alexander packed it in, and moved to a farmhouse in rural Maine where he suddenly found himself forced to confront neighbors who “speak slowly but are hard to understand, and drive slower but are impossible to pass.” In the course of this sobering and hilarious how-not-to, Alexander covers the gamut from doing his best to avoid setting the woods on fire and the occasional intrusions from his previous life (featuring cameos from Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks) to what E.B. White calls the “basic satisfaction of farming”—manure.
Approaching small-town life in rural New England with gusto and a nose for the scoop of a seasoned Hollywood reporter, Alexander puts a new spin on the tradition launched by Thoreau’s reportage from Walden Pond. Man Bites Log is an essential collection for readers of nature writing and back-to-the-land literature, and anyone convinced that la dolce vita can be found in a pile of dung.
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Man Bites Log is an essential collection for readers of nature writing and back-to-the-land literature, and anyone convinced that la dolce vita can be found in a pile of dung.