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Scott Russell Sanders

Scott Russell Sanders is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hunting for Hope, A Private History of Awe, and Earth Works: New & Selected Essays. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University.

Nonfiction

Summer 1991

Dust

By Scott Russell Sanders

The world is being ground to bits. Dust from that friction spirals in the sunlight before me, a galaxy of gleaming specks. With a steady fall that might sound, if […]