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Steve Himmer

Books on the Nightstand

Notebook on Cities and Culture

Alain De Botton

Tyler Cowen

Tom McCarthy

Chris Guillebeau

Daniel Levin

Nick Drake

David Shields

Seth Godin

Pico Iyer

Saul Austerlitz

David Starkey

Kevin Kelly

Tim Harford

Jeff Weiss

Mike Russell

OwlTail

Colin Marshall talks to Steve Himmer, editor of the webjournal Necessary Fiction and author of the novel The Bee-Loud Glade, wherein an eccentric millionaire named Crane picks Finch, a former corporate blogger, out of a rapidly deepening post-firing squalor. Finch finds himself in a very particular future on Crane's intricately landscaped grounds: employed as a decorative hermit, he must do little more than eat, sleep, meditate, and accomplish occasional (if sometimes inexplicable) Crane-assigned tasks. As it turns out, this suit's Finch's sensibilities just fine, even when Crane's corporate empire begins to crumble.

<p>Colin Marshall talks to <a href="http://www.stevehimmer.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Himmer</a>, editor of the webjournal <a href="http://colinmarshallradio.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=896e6aaa2202a2daadde17e4b&amp;id=342e5a4e4f&amp;e=1a34c9dcba" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Necessary Fiction</a> and author of the novel <em>The Bee-Loud Glade</em>, wherein an eccentric millionaire named Crane picks Finch, a former corporate blogger, out of a rapidly deepening post-firing squalor. Finch finds himself in a very particular future on Crane's intricately landscaped grounds: employed as a decorative hermit, he must do little more than eat, sleep, meditate, and accomplish occasional (if sometimes inexplicable) Crane-assigned tasks. As it turns out, this suit's Finch's sensibilities just fine, even when Crane's corporate empire begins to crumble.</p>

The modern decorative hermit: novelist Steve Himmer