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Posted inLiterature

Western Lit: This Profound Posthumous Selection of Ellen Meloy’s Essays Is a Great Introduction to the Desert Scribe’s Works

Who hasn’t wondered what a favorite writer might have bestowed on the world if not silenced too soon? What fan doesn’t long for more—letters, a journal, unpublished fragments, even an annotated grocery list? Devotees of the late southern Utah essayist Ellen Meloy need no longer wait. The sketches gathered in Seasons predate her untimely 2004 […]

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