The Song of Rowland: American Culture at Full Volume
Russell Rowland
16 episodes
3 weeks ago
Dzanc Books conducts a literary contest every year, and they publish the winner in several categories--fiction, poetry and short stories. In 2019, the winner of the Dzanc Award for fiction was a debut novel by John Englehardt called Bloomland, which is the story of a school shooting that takes place in Arkansas. The book is told from three separate points of view, including the shooter, and it's a masterwork of fine writing. I had the pleasure of talking to John about his debut novel, and the...
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Dzanc Books conducts a literary contest every year, and they publish the winner in several categories--fiction, poetry and short stories. In 2019, the winner of the Dzanc Award for fiction was a debut novel by John Englehardt called Bloomland, which is the story of a school shooting that takes place in Arkansas. The book is told from three separate points of view, including the shooter, and it's a masterwork of fine writing. I had the pleasure of talking to John about his debut novel, and the...
The Song of Rowland: American Culture at Full Volume
43 minutes
1 month ago
Episode Fourteen - Anne Millbrooke
Anne Millbrooke is a retired history professor at Montana State University in Bozeman. Earlier this year, after becoming fed up with the government budget cuts, especially to the forest service, Anne walked into a Forest Service office and volunteered to be a fire watch. At first, she was given a couple of more mundane tasks, but the Forest Service eventually gave her a chance to man one of their fire watch towers, in the Little Belt Mountains. The best part of Anne's story is that she had tr...
The Song of Rowland: American Culture at Full Volume
Dzanc Books conducts a literary contest every year, and they publish the winner in several categories--fiction, poetry and short stories. In 2019, the winner of the Dzanc Award for fiction was a debut novel by John Englehardt called Bloomland, which is the story of a school shooting that takes place in Arkansas. The book is told from three separate points of view, including the shooter, and it's a masterwork of fine writing. I had the pleasure of talking to John about his debut novel, and the...
