Dan Newland grew up in Wapakoneta in Auglaize County. For the last 50-plus years, he has lived in Argentina. His first several books were either about Wapakoneta or they at least kept returning there in literary fashion. Newland's latest collection of essays takes readers quite a bit further afield. Of course, Wapakoneta still lingers like a wraith on the margins of some of these essays, but we mostly spend time in more exotic places: New York City, Miami, and the mountainous landscapes where the author lives and takes care of a virgin forest, Patagonia.
Newland is currently working on his memoir about being a newspaper editor in Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship period of 50 years ago. He knows what it is like to live under a totalitarian regime, and he wonders where we are headed these days with our current government.
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