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Notable Nod in Best American Essays 2013

Posted on October 4, 2013October 4, 2013 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

Pleased to see that my essay “Eleven Kinds of Sky,” which was originally published in Orion Magazine and built of snippets from my memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, earned a notable nod in Best American Essays 2013, edited by Robert Atwan and Cheryl Strayed.

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