Andrew“There was a run-down old tollbridge station in the Shoestring Valley of Southern Oregon where Uncle Preston Shiveley had lived for fifty years, outlasting a […]
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Chapter 60: “The Town” by Conrad Richter (1951)
I am, once again, unemployed. Which can only mean that it’s once again time to start pulling Pulitzers off the shelf, dusting the neglect off […]
Chapter 49: “The Way West” by A.B. Guthrie Jr. (1950)
Every now and again, I get in the mood to watch old Westerns. I’m not talking about Tombstone or Unforgiven or even The Good, the […]
Chapter 47: “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck (1940)
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” When I read John Steinbeck’s masterpiece, […]
Chapter 43: “Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner (1972)
“I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely […]
Chapter 40: “Lamb In His Bosom” by Caroline Miller (1934)
“Never does He forget a child o’ His’n. ‘Tis His children that forget that He is rememberin’. Get on yere knees and climn on them […]
Chapter 38: “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy (2007)
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless […]
Chapter 29: “The Able McLaughlins” by Margaret Wilson (1924)
After a somewhat disappointing foray into the 1990’s, I decided I should go back in time and pick up another, what I thought was, pioneer […]