The Meeting of Horizons: Scheherazade’s Reawakening the Heart to Wonder in the Contemporary American Southwest
Completing the Story of Richard V. Francaviglia’s Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient “The lives we live depend upon the stories we tell.” Lee R. Edwards (paraphrasing Joan Didion) “The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake . . . but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules.” Joan Didion “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become...