I woke up at 445 to catch the Shabtadi (Paradise) Express to Ajmer in Rajasthan. Despite heat, my sleep was deep and impartial. I dreamed softly of home amid the whir of the fan and the honk of motorcycles streaming from outside. I had fallen asleep at 830. I took a rickshaw to the train… Continue reading Feeling the Heat in Pushkar
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Daniel Adler Explores Our Mythologizing the American West
I wandered over to the internet cafe’s book rack and found a strange little book called This is the West. It was yellowed and in poor condition, the edges of its pages red. I wondered how it was intact– the binding was gone. I opened it and realized it’s a collection of essays, beautiful little… Continue reading Daniel Adler Explores Our Mythologizing the American West
Daniel Adler Goes West
In the American West, words mean what they say. I’m going to the American West and the American South. I’ll see the bessemer in the steel mills and the corkscrew cacti and skeleton mountains. I’m going to the sultry jungle of hanging cypresses and the ripe cotton and the heatwaved macadam, to the sweet blue… Continue reading Daniel Adler Goes West
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