Tag: Dispatches from Pluto

One can only hope that the land will always have the last word.

Writer Richard Grant moves back to Tucson with his wife Mariah and their four-year-old daughter Isobel. Finding it much changed he embarks on a journey to explore the entire state of Arizona, its history, and its peoples. The main issue Arizona faces is the same one faced by the state and the whole Southwest, specifically…

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“When you grow up in the Delta, everything around you is falling in, and emptying out, and it really affects you. America isn’t supposed to be this way.”

“In twenty-two years,” Grant writes, “I had changed my address eighteen times.” A peripatetic writer whose job had taken him from East Africa to the Sierra Madre, his Manhattan pied-à-terre has become a little claustrophobic, not just to him but to his girlfriend Mariah and his dog Savanna. So when he goes to Mississippi to visit his…

Read more “When you grow up in the Delta, everything around you is falling in, and emptying out, and it really affects you. America isn’t supposed to be this way.”

Hindquarters landing on a card table will do that every time.

“In twenty-two years,” Grant writes, “I had changed my address eighteen times.” A peripatetic writer whose job had taken him from East Africa to the Sierra Madre, his Manhattan pied-à-terre has become a little claustrophobic, not just to him but to his girlfriend Mariah and his dog Savanna. So when he goes to Mississippi to visit his…

Read more Hindquarters landing on a card table will do that every time.