Outspoken actor, devoted woodworker, nature lover, author: Nick Offerman on his funny, earnest new manifesto, 'Where the Deer and the Antelope Play.'
But the book is more than a name-droppy road trip. It’s an exploration of our relationship to the land and the creatures that inhabit it — what it is now and what it should be — often incorporating the ideas of two different naturalists,“My books are usually an excuse to work out the life questions that are concerning me in the moment,” Offerman says.
I’m such a fan of beautiful pastoral writing, from the Romantics up through modern day, so this is a particular challenge. I want the reader to know what I felt on this trail or in this pasture, but I’ve seen this done so beautifully dozens of times that I’m not going to try to come up with the lyrical sequence of adjectives and nouns. Instead I get into the personal experience and find the emotion that way.
Much of the humor is self-deprecating; you acknowledge that its odd to deliver an environmental message by driving an Airstream around the country. Is this guilt or a way to let readers know they don’t need to be perfectly virtuous to fight for change?
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