Anthony Doerr's Blog

My essay about narwhal, icebergs, and “luxury” travel in the High Canadian Arctic appears in the November issue of Condé Nast Traveler. A few of my photographs are featured as well!

Like Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” the pleasure in “Dirty Love” is in seeing the multiple narratives, like light towers at the corners of a field, shine their collective, overlapping glow onto the arena below. From Dirty Love, an October 13 column in the Sunday Globe.

Eight years in the making, Anthony’s new novel, All the Light We Cannot See, will be published by Scribner in May of 2014. You can pre-order it at your local bookshop, at Indie Bound, Powell’s, from iTunes, or on Amazon.

See a few of Anthony’s photos from his trip to the high Arctic for Condé Nast Traveler.

Now Anthony’s newest book, Memory Wall, has been selected as part of the Kindle 100 for the month of June, which means that for this month only, it’s available for only $2.99 on the Kindle Store.

Anthony’s first book, The Shell Collector, is part of the Kindle 100 for the month of April, which means it’s available for only $2.99 on the Kindle Store.

I’ve finally finished a new novel, almost seven hundred pages, seven years in the making.  It follows the lives of a German boy and a French girl during World War II, and is about radio, puzzles, natural history, and a fabled diamond.  It will be published by Scribner in early 2014, but in the meantime readers can find a small piece of it in the new issue of Tin House (This Means War).  

Is wonder really a survival skill? It might be. Orion Magazine has just released a collection of essays testifying to the power of beauty and the importance of humility—and a deep belief, even amid darkness and uncertainty, in wonder’s essential role in our lives. This slim paperback includes Anthony’s essay, “Window of Possibility.”

The November 2012 issue of Condé Nast Traveler features a long essay by Anthony about falling mangoes, gigantic waterfalls, green sand beaches, and occasionally turning your back on “Grown-Up Me.”

Doerr to speak at Coeur d’Alene annual Humanities Event.