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Title: Retread of Previous Books
Review: Wild Night is a retread of previous work about nature in the metropolitan area, including The Meadowlands (Robert Sullivan) and Wild New York (Margaret Mittlebach and Michael Crewdson). Why have a section on Sullivan's discovery of the remnants of Penn Station in the swamps of New Jersey, when this was the sole focus of his book? And she doesn't even credit Sullivan in the acknowledgements. She also never mentions Wild New York, which she obviously used as a source. What's surprising here is that Matthews teaches journalism to students at NYC (a fact she mentions in the book). What kind of lesson is she teaching her students? Pillage the work of others without giving credit?
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