Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
Finding a Place in the Natural World
Reviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a woman raised in mid-twentieth-century suburbia, then lived in New York City as a young adult, and moved to Vermont in 1984. For more than thirty years, she raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables while teaching literature and telling stories. But when she turned sixty, something shifted. Luskin was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest by learning to hunt deer.
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Into the Wilderness
Could there be two people more different?
It’s 1964, and Rose Mayer is recently widowed, a Democrat, and Jewish. When she meets Percy Mendell, a born and bred Vermonter, who has never married and never voted for a Democrat, they clash before a surprising romance springs up, challenging all of the status quos. At age 64, they both must employ their humor, wit and compassion to even consider the other. Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s changing season and voraciously opinionated population, Into the Wilderness is both a love story and a testament to the surprising flexibility of the human heart.
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Deborah Lee Luskin
Deborah Lee Luskin moved from New York City to Vermont in 1984 to write, garden, keep bees, and raise daughters. Luskin has been an editorial columnist, radio commentator, pen-for-hire, and blogger. Her first novel, Into the Wilderness, won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Regional Fiction. Luskin has also enjoyed a long career as an educator, teaching writing and literature-based humanities to gifted elementary writers, college students, new adult readers, life-long learners, healthcare workers, and prison inmates. She holds a PhD in English Literature and expected to become an academic, not a deer hunter. She lives in Vermont with her husband, their dog, usually a cat, and a variable number of chickens.
Living In Place
Just Read!
Just Read! Carry a magazine with you at all times. Keep a book in your car. Tuck a paperback into your messenger bag. Load a library onto your Kindle – and fire it up instead of checking your phone! Too much screen time! I’m trying this technique myself, because I...
Living in Place in Alaska
Through the Woods and Off the Grid While traveling in place to visit my friend Jan, I paid a visit to Jan’s daughter Megan, who’s been living in place a forty-minute walk outside a remote village on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska. We arrived by ferry and walked...
ALASKA: A Transportation Vacation
My recent trip to Alaska was a Transportation Vacation. After a two-hour drive to the airport, it took three flights and all day to cross the continent and then north. Once in Alaska, I traveled by plane, boat and by foot. I flew in a plane the size of a mosquito...
