The next Friends of the Desert Hot Springs Library Series lecture will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19 at the Desert Hot Springs Library.

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Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

The historical novel, Henry James once declared, was a genre “condemned . . . to a fatal cheapness.” Throughout the 20th century, while historical fiction produced plenty of bestsellers, the literati ...