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#2 – The Antidote by Karen Russell – 2025 Best Reads
Karen Russell knows how to show up the spiritual whirlwinds that linger in placid and forgotten landscapes. →
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Very Dusty, Windy, Mean – Lessons from the Dust Bowl
“On those days when the wind stops blowing across the face of the southern plains, the land falls into a silence that scares people in the way that a big house can haunt after the lights go out and no one else is there.” An opening sentence like that sets up high expectations for a… →
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“Everything That Seems Empty is Full of Angels”: Remembering the Great Plains
As it turns out, the Plains have been essential not only for my own growth as a writer, they have formed me spiritually. I would even say they have made me a human being. —Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (11) Kathleen Norris’s now-classic Dakota became a touchstone for me when I read it 25… →
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