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Letter From the Desert: Nipton Diary #1

Letter From the Desert: Nipton Diary #1

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Chris Clarke
Feb 04, 2023
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I began living in the desert full-time in 2008, leaving an established life in the Bay Area for one in the desert whose shape I had no way of telling. Though it was a phenomenally difficult and lonely time, I did some of the best writing of my life there. This was before the pressure of writing three to five pieces a day for KCET robbed me of much of t…

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