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    Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned

    Where do you go when you have no home? Wherever you are welcomed, naturally. Or supernaturally in the case of Ray Bradbury’s classic (redundant, I know) From the… Read more “Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned”

    October 26, 2015May 19, 2025 by David Nilsen

    Childhood and Mortality in Two Very Different Books

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the way childhood memories tease and flirt with our sense of mortality. I’ve read two books recently that speak to… Read more “Childhood and Mortality in Two Very Different Books”

    October 21, 2015May 19, 2025 by David Nilsen

    Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes

    No writer has ever understood the sad, strange, ecstatic wonder of Midwestern childhood like Ray Bradbury. The curious freedoms granted us away from cities, the teetering inner… Read more “Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes”

    October 5, 2015May 19, 2025 by David Nilsen

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