Megan Pugh's writing has appeared in The Believer, Callaloo, Denver Quarterly, The Oxford American, and VOLT. Her book on the cultural history of American dance is forthcoming.
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Megan Pugh's writing has appeared in The Believer, Callaloo, Denver Quarterly, The Oxford American, and VOLT. Her book on the cultural history of American dance is forthcoming.
The novel House of Earth shows Woody Guthrie in a different light, exiled from the Dust Bowl but dreaming of it still.
In the 1930s and ’40s, American dance was about working men and women, not dying swans.
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