Is there an echo in here? Nick’s old story about the visit of the owner of the Minnesota Twins to Waseca 35-plus years ago is still relevant today in the wake of the furor over NBA team owner Donald Sterling’s racist remarks.
Newbery Honor winner Margi Preus returns with a rollicking middle-grade adventure set during Norway’s “America fever” epidemic.
Because when it comes to stoking the ancestral fires, the Irish put most other immigrant groups to shame.
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path of enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there a shortcut? Not one I’ve found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
–from “The Getaway Car” by Ann Patchett
Twelve years without Wellstone…from a piece I wrote for the Washington Post in 2002.