“A Long Walk into an Imperiled Future,” TomDispatch.com, October, 19, 2021.
October 19, 2021
Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today, that superb writer and naturalist William deBuys returns to TomDispatch with a piece that offers a sense of his new book, The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss. As Bill McKibben, a man whose word I would always take, writes, “Bill deBuys is one of the planet’s great observers, and this may be his masterwork — a story of an exploration of Nepal, but also of the present and future of this planet. Caring for that world, and all that’s in it, is necessary, painful, and as he makes clear, exquisitely beautiful work.”
Conversation with Laura Paskus concerning The Trail to Kanjiroba
October 19, 2021
On “New Mexico in Focus,” PBS/ KNME, 7-8 pm MDT, October 22, 2021.
The Good Neighbor | New Mexico Magazine
July 13, 2021
Immersed in northern New Mexico culture, author William deBuys has emerged as one of the region’s strongest storytellers, conservationists, and defenders.
Nuevo Mexico Profundo Interview Series: William deBuys
July 13, 2021
We present an interview by Frank Graziano with William deBuys, as part of an oral biography project conducted by Nuevo Mexico Profundo, gathering a cross section of personalities and histories from New Mexico.
Trail to Kanjiroba | Kirkus Reviews
July 13, 2021
DeBuys brings many of the most appealing attributes of memoir and travel and nature writing to bear on humanity’s most significant existential crisis. In 61 brief chapters, which read like travel journal entries, deBuys weaves together geological and evolutionary histories and studies of the planet’s peoples and biodiversity within the context of his participation with the Nomads Clinic, which provides medical care to communities in Nepal’s remote Upper Dolpo region.... A pleasing ray of positivity regarding the planet’s present and future.
Mountain and Prairie
October 1, 2020
William deBuys – Sage of the Southwest
Mountain and Prairie’s podcast interview of William deBuys, renowned writer and conservationist, who is known as one of the most influential thinkers in the modern-day American West. October, 2019.
Orion
April 8, 2020
Together Apart is an Orion web series of letters from isolation. The third conversation is a series of emails between Pulitzer Prize finalist author William deBuys (A Great Aridness, The Last Unicorn, The Walk) and bestselling author and fly-fisherman David James Duncan (The Brothers K, The River Why, My Story as Told by Water). April, 2020.
The New York Times
July 18, 2019
The ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Crowd Wants Access to this Arctic Reserve, July 18, 2019
The Colorado
April 12, 2016
A Murat Eyuboglu film, inspired by deBuys’s 1999 book Salt Dreams. deBuys is credited as co-screen writer (with Eyuboglu) and lyricist. the concert version debuted on April 12, 2016 in Houston followed by a May 18, 2016 performance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The film’s screening schedule is at www.projectcolorado.com.
A ravenous market for wildife parts is pushing Earth’s biota to the brink
March 15, 2015
LA Times, March 15, 2015
Hotter and Dryer: Life in 21st-Century Southern California
March 20, 2013
Lecture at California State University, Fullerton, March 20, 2013
New Mexico Land Conservancy honors noted conservationist
October 12, 2012
Santa Fe New Mexican, October 12, 2012
Interview with Renee Montagne
July 20, 2012
Drought Affects Large Swaths Of U.S.
Morning Edition, July 20, 2012
Interview with Ari Phillips
July 16, 2012
Author William deBuys On Climate Change In The Southwest
ThinkProgress, July 16, 2012