![]() ![]() Forty years later in Iowa, they were "very well off." Dvořák's Bohemian countrymen had been "the poorest of the poor" from Písek, Tábor, and Budějovice. ![]() Zoellner visits Spillville, Iowa where Czech composer Antonin Dvořák spent the summer of 1893, penning his famed Symphony No. His book is a fascinating investigation into American places and themes metaphors for our country. Zoellner has logged tens of thousands of miles zigzagging the continent with a small tent, backpack, and hiking boots. To say he is well-traveled is to say cheetahs run fast. Zoellner teaches at Chapman and Dartmouth Colleges, serves as politics editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books, and is the author and coauthor of seven previous books. ![]() Tom Zoellner's new essay collection, The National Road, explores this kind of Americana, peeking into corners few of us get to see. Smith, who had been an organizer for populist demagogue Huey Long. I was five miles from Christ of the Ozarks, a 65-foot, 340-ton statue erected in 1966 by Gerald L.K. Last January, I attended a writing residency in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. ![]()
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