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Tom Zoellner

Tom Zoellner is an associate professor of English at Chapman University. He is the author of four nonfiction books, most recently Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World, from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief, and is the politics editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books.

No Harmony in the Heartland

No Harmony in the Heartland

Two small towns in northeast Iowa are caught up in the national struggle over immigration

by Tom Zoellner | Monday, December 03, 2018
Trinidad and Tobago: The Showman

Trinidad and Tobago: The Showman

Popular anxiety about rising crime has buoyed the TV show “Crime Watch”

by Tom Zoellner | Monday, September 07, 2015

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Finding Your Voice

by Larry Woiwode

The novelist and short-story writer Larry Woiwode, whose 1975 book Beyond the Bedroom Wall was one of the most acclaimed works of fiction of the era, died recently in North Dakota. He lived in the state for nearly 45 years, writing and working on his organic farm. He also served, for many years, as the poet laureate of North Dakota. In our Summer 2019 issue, Woiwode remembered his development as a writer—and how he ultimately came to find his voice.

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