“The Lure of the Hunt: How Falconry is Faring in America” in Virginia Quarterly Review

by Amanda Giracca on October 18, 2015October 18, 2015

The first thing I notice, as if there’s anything else remarkable about this scrubby swath of suburbia, is the glinting network of 9,000 solar panels, cordoned off by a chain-link fence: not the setting I had imagined when I thought of hunting, but then falconry is an adaptable sport. On a cold and clear Saturday […]

“Concerning couguar,” in Terrain

by Amanda Giracca on December 10, 2012December 10, 2014

Concerning Lyons, I will not say that I ever saw any my selfe, but some affirme that they have seene a Lyon at Cape Anne which is not above six leagues from Boston; some likewise being lost in woods, have heard such terrible roaring’s, as have made them much agast; which must eyther be Devills […]