On the Nightstand: June 2015

I’m headed for central South Dakota later this month–Oacoma, to be exact, a town of about 450 people that’s nineteen miles from where my great-grandparents homesteaded and twenty-five miles from where my father grew up. We’re having a Rigney family reunion, the first I’ve ever attended. And so, it seemed like the perfect time to reread Kathleen Norris’ Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. One of my proudest brushes with fame is having met Norris a decade before she wrote Dakotaat a poetry reading i...