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Rick Bass

Nonfiction

Summer 2003

Landscape and Imagination

By Rick Bass

It is an ancient and fundamental question, whether a person is shaped most by the iron rails of blood lineage or by the land, and the strong and supple hands […]

Fiction

Spring 2000

The Fireman

By Rick Bass

They both stand on the other side of the miracle. Their marriage was bad, perhaps even rotting, but then it got better. He—the fireman, Kirby, knows what the reason is—that […]