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Charles Prose Ellis

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-Three stars: a perfectly fine story that I enjoyed for what it was.

-Two stars: I wanted to like this more than I did. Won't re-read.

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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

by Richard Grant

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Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989

by Bruce Chatwin

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The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft

by Kim Stafford

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