Though illness may rob us of vitality, sometimes it can also help bring us understanding -- albeit in improbable disguises. Essayist and short story writer Elisabeth Tova Bailey was struck with a ...

A careful listener can hear a snail eating. It sounds like a tiny celery-muncher, says Elisabeth Tova Bailey in her brief, often lapidary debut, "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating," a memoir enlarging ...

Meditative, provocative, educational, life-affirming and beautiful, Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s 15-minute “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” is on the lineup of a San Francisco Green Film Festival program ...

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As anyone who’s watched a few episodes of Planet Earth knows well, the natural world is filled with a seemingly endless supply of biological horror. Weird fish and creepy reptiles coexist with strange ...

The name "Snail Street" sounds like an old lane selling sea food in coastal Tainan, the oldest city of Taiwan and very much ...

We seek metaphors. When we find them in the natural world, we feel better about things, perhaps because we see ourselves as part of something larger. “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” has much in ...