He calls himself a Cosmoterian because his goal is to make himself worthy of the majesty of Cosmos. He believes in honoring otherness and in giving questions credence over certainty. Silas believes that selflessness enlarges vision and that what a person should strive for is to be overcome by the beyond. The problem is, his beliefs don't fall within any of the categories. Celestial Mechanics is his first novel.ĪBOUT THE NEW BOOK: When Silas Fortunato applies for an editorial position for the 'spirituality' section of a local newspaper, he is asked to fill in a bubble sheet to mark his religion. His five major books and the recent Writing Blue Highways have never been out of print. Here, There, Elsewhere brings together a collection of his short-form reportage about places around the world. In Roads to Quoz, Heat-Moon sets out for a half-dozen American destinations that have long intrigued him. River-Horse gives an account of his four-month sea-to-sea voyage across the United States on rivers, lakes, and canals. His second work, PrairyErth, is a narrative exploration into a corner of the great tallgrass prairie in eastern Kansas. His first book, Blue Highways, tells of a 13,000-mile journey around America on back roads.

He lives in Missouri on an old tobacco farm he's returning to forest.

EVENT OVERVIEW: William Least Heat-Moon will Present his New Hardcover Debut Novel Celestial Mechanics: A Tale for a Mid-Winter Night.ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR: William Least Heat-Moon pen name of William Trogdon, is of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry.

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