"George Foy has written the perfect antidote for our increasingly noisy age. Zero Decibels is meditative, witty, lyrical, and fascinating. Every page is a revelation."—Alan Burdick, author of Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
“That a writer such as George Michelsen Foy should apply his immense brain power and obsessive investigative skills to stalking this intriguing prey [silence] is a surprise and a pure delight. The result is a lively, elegantly written examination of nothing no less than our existence, as it pours into, and out of, our humble ears. The art and science of hearing has found its poet laureate.”
—Bob Shacochis, author of Easy in the Islands and The Immaculate Invasion
A compelling, lyrical exploration of an increasingly rare and elusive place: silence. Foy employs every means that modernity offers both to measure the pervasiveness and power of noise in modern life and to escape it. The results of his journey offer us not just a deeper appreciation of silence but, more surprisingly, of sound."—Charles Siebert, author of The Wauchula Woods Accord
advance praise for Zero Decibels
