An essay on living in Duluth later collected in "North Writers II: Our Place in the Woods - Postcards from Duluth" edited by John Henricksson, published April 1997 by University of Minnesota Press and Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.

"I live in Duluth, and I’ve got reasons. Lake Superior is a big one. Twenty-three streams running through town are twenty-three more. The largest natural sandbar in the world is another. And I’m tickled to live in a city where bears wander the streets every fall like country cousins come to town to see the sights.

"Duluth has its cultural attractions, too—everything from a symphony orchestra to one of the best Greek restaurants in Minnesota. And yet I have the impression that many people, if they think of this city at all, consider Duluth a cold kind of joke, a Peoria of the North, the last outpost on the northernmost edge of the middle nowhere."

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