Rebecca I. Allen

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Daniel Woodrell defined his own writing style, country noir, as a literary strategy, "to portray the allegedly folksy and bucolic heartland as the frequently rude and savage and dark world those of us who’ve done our time there know it can be is to explode a happy myth of fantasy-America."

Islands

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If there's one thing Wisconsin does as well as any state, it's bucolic backdrops and easy-going getaways. The village of Hollandale is as romantic as it gets.

Today headline

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‘It wasn’t worth the $10 tariff for a $27 purchase’: American shoppers find maybe they just won’t buy that small thing from Canada or England this year todayheadline

At Fleece & Harmony, a woolen mill and yarn shop in bucolic Belfast, Prince Edward Island, in Canada, owner Kim Doherty used to be…