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Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

Ron Franscell
Journey, Where You Come, Where You Belong
Ron Franscell (2011). “Sourtoe Cocktail Club: The Yukon Odyssey of a Father and Son in Search of a Mummified Human Toe ... and Everything Else”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield

Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.

Ron Franscell
Memories, House, Faces
Ron Franscell (2000). “Angel Fire”, Berkley

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

Ron Franscell
Sweat, Pages, Born

A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

Ron Franscell
Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers, even funnier than Louise Erdrich, even more primal than Jim Harrison, and even more eloquent than Annie Proulx.

Ron Franscell
Littles, West, Annie

One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.

Ron Franscell
Past, Voice, Effort

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

Ron Franscell
Haunting, Pages, Berserk

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