Willa Cather’s 1918 chronicle of the relationship between an orphaned youth from Virginia and the spirited, bright-eyed daughter of Bohemian immigrants in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century has always occupied a special place in my heart. I am myself the descendant of Bohemian (Czech) pioneers in Nebraska. But, really, everything Cather wrote is golden.
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“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time…
