What Lincoln Michel thinks about America

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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1. 15 Sept 2026

   Our readingWriting about the American Southwest without acknowledging drought, rising temperatures, and pollution is intellectually dishonest.

   Their wordsPerhaps this is a bold claim, but I think anyone writing about or from the southwest who isn't also in some way clocking how drought and rising temperatures and pollution are affecting the region is being disingenuous.

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