Literary Landscapes: Taylor Krueger on the Soil of the Kansas Prairie

Published May 23, 2024 at 2:15 PM CDT

In this episode, Taylor Krueger talks about how the soil of the Kansas prairie appears in Sarah Smarsh's representation of the complex, contradictory stories we tell about ourselves.

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