Four Questions on Farsickness: Joan Frank
“Looked back upon, the period spent in Hawaii proved something close to miraculous, in that it gave me permission to create a life on my own terms.”
Read MoreMegan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished four times in Best American Essays and published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She edits Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“Looked back upon, the period spent in Hawaii proved something close to miraculous, in that it gave me permission to create a life on my own terms.”
Read More“According to the last count, Baker’s population was sixty-eight people. It’s all wind, dust, and wild sage. It was beautiful and terrifying. I would wander around the scrub and think about how fragile life is.”
Read More“No longer immersed in the culture in which I am raised, I’m able to see my surroundings better. As a writer, I like being the stranger, the one who doesn’t fit in and scrutinizes society from the sidelines.”
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Read More“I love other places – Paris, Hawaii, Rome – but nothing lies deeper within me than the West.”
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