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Barry Lopez talks "Resistance."
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio
October 11, 2004

Barry Lopez's new book contains fictional letters from people who go to ground after being warned by the government that their work is under surveillance. (Image courtesy Alfred A. Knopf (David Littschwager, photographer))

St. Paul, Minn. — Writer Barry Lopez says he has never thought of himself as political. He won the National Book Award for "Arctic Dreams" and critical acclaim his fable "Crow and Weasel."

But now he says he's distressed about the state of American democracy, and how most people seem disengaged.

His new book "Resistance" tells 9 fictional stories of people who decide to work for change.

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