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How research fires writing: wills, inventories, archives, photographs, and what I learned in Howard Bahr’s Research and Writing class

The conductor went back to his paperwork, and Artemus looked past him out the window where the woods, the moss, the houses—some of them on stilts now—passed in winter array, made soft and ephemeral in a light the color of old pearls. That sublime passage is Howard Bahr from his extraordinarily beautiful novel, Pelican Road.…