Katherine Dalton
Katherine Dalton has worked as a magazine editor, freelance feature writer and book editor. She started in journalism in college, working at The Yale Literary Magazine during most of its controversial few years as a national magazine of opinion based at Yale. She then worked briefly at Harper’s magazine in New York, and more extensively at Chronicles magazine in Illinois, where she was a contributing editor for many years. She has has written for various publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the University Bookman, and was a contributor to Wendell Berry: Life and Work and Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto. She lives in her native Kentucky.
Articles by Katherine Dalton
Locavoracity
What is the point of eating local? Are we actually feeding something besides our own ego and gluttony?
Dear Santa
You may think every five- to eight-year-old you know wanted an iPod this year. Not these kids.
Julian Assange & the Face of Placelessness
From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.
Sunny Side Up
There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.
Rootedness & Rand Paul
What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?
Everything I Ever Learned About Civility I Learned in a Small Town
For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.
In the Good News Department
Down in West Texas there is a one-armed cotton farmer named Cliff Etheredge who has turned the sirocco that blows through his part of the country into an asset—and not…
Chalk One Up for Organic
Some scientific arguments on energy use are based on data that do not take enough factors into account