Eric Lanke
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Monday, March 30, 2026
Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
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I guess there’s a strange story behind this one. As I’ve written elsewhere -- anyone who is familiar with Cooper is familiar with The Last o...
Monday, March 23, 2026
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, March 16, 2026
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
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FARCHRIST TALES BOOK THREE: THE UNDERGOD Near the end of Farchrist Year Eighty-Six, my mother gave birth to me in the small room where she s...
Monday, March 9, 2026
Hillbilly’s Elegy by J. D. Vance
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Vance says this in his afterword. I tried to lay my cards explicitly on the table in one of the later chapters of the book: I am a conservat...
Monday, March 2, 2026
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, February 23, 2026
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
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FARCHRIST TALES BOOK THREE: THE UNDERGOD The owner of The Quarter Pony was a middle-aged man by the name of Otis Parkinson and he hired my m...
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