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Danny Heitman

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 27, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Advocate
Top 500K sites
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Jul 12, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Danny Heitman

    Author Annie Dillard pointed me toward Louisiana wonders in nature (opens the original)

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    For those of us who love the good, green world, Annie Dillard offered an abiding reminder that nature isn’t something you have to go deep into the woods to experience. Dillard, who died Sept. 15 at 81, rose to fame in 1974 with “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” an account of walks near her house in Roanoke, Virginia. She was sharply attentive to frogs, birds, trees, wind and water, but her excursions typically had her back home by dark. That book inspired readers everywhere to pay more attention

  2. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · DANNY HEITMAN | Contributing writer

    In Louisiana's August, nature does its work in shifts: Danny Heitman (opens the original)

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    I’m writing from the front lines of another Louisiana August, perched in an armchair while moths beat against the living room window. They’re drawn each night to the light of my reading lamp, pelting the glass like a faint spray of hail. The stir reminds me each evening that I’m straddling two places. Mentally, I’m in the provinces of 19th-century England, anchored in another time and country by the heavy copy of “Middlemarch” on my lap. But the buzz of life just beyond the drapes tu

  3. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · DANNY HEITMAN | Contributing writer

    At a celebrity bookshop in California, I found greatness on the shelf: Danny Heitman (opens the original)

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    When my family and I visited Summerland, California, in May, I assumed that blue skies would be part of the mix. California is known for its sunny weather, and who wouldn’t expect a place called Summerland to offer endless sun? But our excursion unfolded during the area’s season of “May gray,” a local quirk of the weather that brings clouds and chill. Days like that make wide, clear windows all the more welcome to harness the subdued light. The thought came to mind as we browsed in Godmo

  4. Article · Jul 12, 2026 · DANNY HEITMAN | Contributing writer

    Revisiting a resolution to record my reading life: Danny Heitman (opens the original)

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    We’ve reached the midpoint of the year, which can be a good time to ask how all those New Year’s resolutions we made last January are panning out. As this year opened, I resolved to record the name of every book I read. The idea came after I wrote about my friend Linda Lightfoot, who’s kept such a reading journal since 2005. I was also inspired after visiting with Tricia Day, a Baton Rouge woman whose late mother, Kitty Day, kept a reading journal from 1937 until her death in 2007. The sto

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