Antarctica isn’t a country, but I am writing about it anyway. My blogging challenge, my rules, right? Antarctica A Year On Ice is a documentary about life in Antartica over the winter. The continent has about 4,000 residents in the summer season, peaking in December – February, and roughly 1,000 people the rest of the… [Read More]
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Kenosha and Life in Fly-Over Country
Midwestern writer Twitter was really salty about a story that ran recently in Harper’s about Kenosha. Harper’s is a prestige magazine, and many writers would love the opportunity to have a clip from it. But the editors are sometimes clueless about the rest of the world. The Midwest is strangely misunderstood, dismissed as flyover land… [Read More]
Argentina: An Economic Chronicle
I’ve long been fascinated with Argentina, which was once one of the richest countries in the world. Argentina: An Economic Chronicle. How One of the Richest Countries in the World Lost Its Wealth is the memoir of Vito Tanzi, who was a staff member at the International Monetary Fund who worked on Argentine issues in… [Read More]
Antigua and Barbuda: Annie John
The Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda were British colonies until 1981. Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Annie John in 1985, although it originally appeared as a series of short stories in The New Yorker. Annie John is a coming of age story about a girl who lives on Antigua. The exact time is never specified, but… [Read More]
Andorra
Andorra: A Novel is not set in the real Andorra, which is disappointing. It’s set in a fictionalized version of it that takes some liberties with geography. The real Andorra is a land-locked country situated between Spain and France. It has 77,000 people who live in its capital, Andorra La Vella, or in the surrounding… [Read More]
