Some of the essays in ‘Wild Fictions’ are personal, others analytical, but all of them carry the quiet energy of a writer who has never been content staying in one place, intellectually or otherwise.

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About the author: Erlick has been widely published as a travel writer and cultural journalist. Her second novel, "The Poppy Fields," is due this summer.

no big book-signing tour. The real world was now intruding horrifically.

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