Terry Tempest Williams had already brewed tea and set out cookies in her new Salt Lake City apartment, asked several questions and listened intently to each answer, before admitting that she was feeling a little nervous to be interviewed.
“I said to Brooke (her husband) before you came, what if I just cry through the whole interview?,” Williams said. “Because I feel like that’s where we are.”
That tender divulgence was one of many Williams made while being a gracious host on a recent February morning. She also expressed an abundance of gratitude. But neither that vulnerability nor the outpouring of appreciation would be surprising for those familiar with her work…