A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress , public domain.
Literature is not a behavioral guidebook. Its very fossil fuel is wrongdoing.
Allan Gurganus Carolinian
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"Artistry is a Kind of Citizenship," interview with Megan Mayhew Bergman, Ploughshares, June 24, 2015
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