Publish Yourself
Rachel Maddow is not a literary snob, but she made a strangely dismissive comment about self-published authors in a recent show. She associated them with political hacks. Describing the Republican … Read More
Category: Not Your Movie West
Lew Wallace, who spent most of his term as territorial governor writing the novel “Ben Hur,” got it right when he said, “All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.” That early strangeness, which has since been corrected, was not New Mexico’s failing. Elsewhere USA just failed to understand. I begin this Web book with four historic days demonstrating the problem and then relate an earlier “failure” in the territory: abandonment of Chaco Canyon and its outliers.