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Voice of the Desert: After Making a Name at Gawker and Wonkette, Ken Layne Created the ‘Desert Oracle’ to Showcase the Wacky, Weird and Wonderful of the High Desert

by Beth Allen August 13th, 2019July 6th, 2022

It was early 2018. I’d just become a desert resident and was shopping at the Cactus Mart in Morongo Valley. A small yellow booklet with an illustration of a Joshua Tree and the title “DESERT ORACLE” in stark black letters caught my eye. “A pocket field guide to the strange and mysterious Mojave,” it said […]