Like other journalists who have written at times about travel, I get many offers for press junkets from travel agencies.…
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Confidence in Culture
The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, 20 years in the making, exemplifies a movement by Native American tribes to build the cultural machinery to tell the world their stories. – See more at: http://thislandpress.com/issues/this-machine-maps-the-stars-march-15-2014/#sthash.VyEI4pmo.dpuf
When the Rodeo Clowns Came
I live surrounded by retirees in rural Oklahoma. They are spry. They own arsenals of gardening equipment: lawnmower-tractor hybrids that…
On Bohemian Life in the Sooner State
HOMEWARD BOUND: Tahlequah via Brooklyn: James McGirk writes notes from a screened-in porch in a city that sleeps.
Destination Oklahoma: Route 66
What you really need to live here is a truck. Maybe not in the cities, but out here, in the…
The Cheat Code to Life
Sneaky tricks, workarounds, and creative rule-bending to outwit the chumps and get what you want. (My stories are Reddit Pizza…
The Great Spy’s Dream
I asked Patrick if there was anything particularly useful he could pass on to me “about the CIA.” “The first…
The Splashy Debut Novel is Dead—Or Is It?
Are the big publishing houses using independent presses as a farm league to scout for talent, and exiting the market…