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Author of "On Trails" and now "In Trees." Essays in The New Yorker, Harper's, New York Mag, Granta, n+1, Outside, Emergence, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
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Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing.

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By Robert Moor Verified
| Literary Hub Verified
If you’ve ever walked through a bookstore with an author by your side, you may have noticed something peculiar: writers don’t check out new books the way normal people do. Your average reader, when they pick up a book, will first inspect the cover, then they will read the synopsis, and finally they will glance at the author photo, cruelly appraising the hair and skin and posture of a subspecies of human (Homo scriptor) that largely prefers to remain out of sight.
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Boek | In Trees - Robert Moor

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By Robert Moor Verified
| hebban.nl
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The Tree House | Robert Moor

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By Robert Moor Verified
| Lapham's Quarterly Verified
When I imagine a life of pure freedom, I tend to picture a tree house. This is an image pulled directly from my childhood in the suburbs of Chicago. But the tree house I envision is not the slapped-together pile of plywood and two-by-fours one usually thinks of when one thinks of a “tree house.” It is a spacious, elegant, gently decaying structure in a far-off jungle. I first saw this tree house in an issue of National Geographic when I was about twelve years old.
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