Dirt: a love story Editor: Barbara Richardson ISBN: 978-1-61168-766-8 ForeEdge: 2015 $19.95, 200pp. An anthology about dirt. How is it possible to have over thirty writers tell us about something that is, well, as plain as dirt? Well, it helps when you’re able to bring in some of the big guns of land-based writing: Pam Houston, Wes Jackson, Laura Pritchett, Janisse Ray, Linda Hogan, BK Loren, Julene Bair and editor Barbara Richardson, herself. (Additional contributors include several biologists, as well as at least one of each of the following: sculptor, filmmaker, geomorphologist, vintner and terrestrial ecologist.) It helps, too, that ...