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The Daily Yonder Book Review: Desert Oracle Volume 1: Strange, True Tales from the American Southwest Within these pages are many mysteries of the desert. Some are cruel and terrible, others sublime, and a persistent few remain inexplicable by our current metrics of understanding.
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There’s a voice beaming over the Mojave, coming from a small radio station in Joshua Tree, California, that once a week offers some insight into the weirdness and mystery that characterize American deserts. It’s the Desert Oracle Radio. It’s also a podcast and quarterly magazine. And now it’s a book.
But the path from a magazine to a hardcover collection of essays,