Klinkenborg got our attention a decade ago when he was a visiting professor down in Northfield. Ever since then, he’s been writing thoughtful little meditations on the New York Times op-ed page under the rubric “A Rural Life.” We’re not sure how one ends up with a job like this—paid to say whatever crosses your mind, from the comfort of the family farm, in the Paper of Record. (We suspect it may have something to do with stringing together visiting professorships from coast to coast. That and sitting on the Times editorial board.) But it certainly helps if your prose is as effortless and clever as Klinkenborg’s. Perhaps he’ll reveal precisely how he does it at his February 29 reading at Ruminator Books from this, his third book.
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