Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian CooperRead about another entry on the list.
Christian Cooper was birdwatching in Central Park when he had a confrontation with a dog walker that went viral. I remember seeing the video and wanting to know more about his story. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one. Better Living Through Birding is part memoir, part nature writing. Cooper takes readers back into his childhood when he first fell in love with bird watching. As a self-described “Blerd” (Black nerd), Cooper meanders into thoughts about his love of comics and the importance to him of some of their queer storylines when he was a young gay man.
--Marshal Zeringue
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