Dansite

“The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of..."

“New Year’s Eve 1899 must have felt momentous even if you weren’t a four-year-old backstage at Proctor’s Twenty-Third Street Theater..."

“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an officer in the Union Army. He stood six feet three inches tall..."

“I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite, can stop the bleeding—..."

“IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying,..."

“When we were new, Rosa and I were mid-store, on the magazines table side, and could see through more than half of the window...."

"First there was nothing. Then there was everything..."

"O anti-verdurous phallic were't not for your pouring weight looming in tears..."

“To say the truth, it was not how I expected—stepping off toward America past a drowned horse."...

“After all," said the Duchess vaguely, "there are certain things you can't get away from..."

“There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always."...

“Dypaloh. There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting..."

"I was stunned by Mary Karr’s memoir, The Liars’ Club. Not just by its ferocity, its beauty, and..."

I found a copy of this book at The Dusty Bookshelf here in Lawrence, KS today...