Pete Duval News Today

Think you see far more vanity license plates in New Hampshire than in other states? It’s not your imagination.

For novelist and South Carolina native Mark Powell, watching the war unfolding in Ukraine hits close to home

, feels like what it is—a product of remarkable time and care. It took Reece seventeen years to write the book, and however much he wanted it to be done earlier, he kept waiting for and working toward a rightness that eluded him. I can’t remember anymore how I stumbled into that process. I’d occasionally written to him over the years to tell him how much I admire his poems and to share what I’d written about them, and somehow, at some point, that resulted in him sending me a draft of th...