Coyotes and Culture

Claire McEachern teaches Renaissance literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and ranches with her family in Chiloquin, Oregon. She is the author or editor of several books of scholarship on the writings of Shakespeare. This is her first work of creative nonfiction.

"Claire McEachern beautifully renders a California you won't find in Joan Didion’ s essays, one battered by floods and fires, capturing what life will soon be like for the rest of us in a world of dramatic climate change. She sees things with unusual clarity, as well as with a mix of seriousness, self-deprecation, and humor. Those who love memoir will be drawn to Coyotes and Culture, as will anyone interested in what it means to live uneasily between culture and an often-merciless nature." - James Shapiro, professor of English, Columbia University "McEachern captures the strange, dangerous beauty of Los Angeles and Malibu life, revealing a world that's both more lush and more demanding than outsiders often see. Her book offers smart, thoughtful, and surprising encounters with broad-reaching cultural tensions that, she shows, can often best be understood at a human scale." - Sarah Mesle, associate professor of writing, University of Southern California, editor-at-large, Los Angeles Review of Books