Tobin Mitnick in Conversation With Casey Clapp & Alex Crowson
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesTobin Mitnick, JewsLoveTrees creator and shameless tree lover, leads you, the tree-curious, through the wonderful world of North American trees with fact, opinion, and humor. In Must Love Trees (Rock Point), Mitnick invites you to share his deeply personal connection to our forest companions in ways that expand the storied genre of nature writing. From an imagined dialogue with the world’s oldest bristlecone pine, to the minutiae of tree huggability, to the emotional toll of taking up the practice of bonsai, this fresh take into the world of trees is divided into three equally humorous and insightful sections. The first section discusses Mitnick’s personal opinions and relationship with trees, while the second section describes the science behind trees (from tree botany to tree biology to…