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At Work ISSUE 35

In Nature

Rick Bass’s Desk

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THIS NEW DESK, in a cabin we restored, was built for me by my partner Carter, who lives out on the prairie, while my home in the Yaak is deep forest. The desk replicates my work desk in the Yaak. I write by hand, so that muscle memory—cant of wrist and elbow, familiar position of forearm and shoulder, everything—is a comfort in entering the dream each day. —RICK BASS

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Rick Bass’s new book, With Every Great Breath (2024) “offers a portrait of our planet that is always alert to its wonders.” The author was born and raised in Texas and has lived in Montana’s Yaak Valley for almost forty years.