Laura Gets Her Due

“Indeed, an excellent corrective to “Walden” is the work of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who grew up on those prairies, and in a genuine little house in the big woods. Wilder lived what Thoreau merely played at, and her books are not only more joyful and interesting than “Walden” but also, when reread, a thousand times more harrowing.”

Read great article by Kathryn Schultz @NewYorker.  She has a new fan.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum