This is why you should self-Google every now and then: because no one will call you to tell you that your essay has been selected by Robert Atwan of the Best American series as a “distinguished submission.” A nice little honor for “Selling the Farm,” published last year in Shenandoah.
I think this also means that Christopher Hitchens, this year’s editor, read (or at least skimmed) my essay.
Kirsten Eve Beachy 
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