For Ian Frazier, the Great Plains are a "Giant Time Park."
Writer Ian Frazier. He's known primarily as a writer of humor pieces for The New Yorker magazine. Some of those earlier short humor pieces and essays were collected in two earlier books, Dating Your Mom and Nobody Better, Better than Nobody. His new book, Great Plains, is quite different. It describes a history of the great plains through Frazier's own trips driving 25,000 miles in a criss-cross of the area, and hours spent in the New York's Public Library reading about the great plains. Frazier's interest in the area grew out of the time he left New York and moved to Montana to write and live. (Rebroadcast. Originally broadcast on June 29, 1989).
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