The Meadow and the Misread Author|Roy M. Close Traveler in an Antique Land

Traveler in an Antique Land is a social/political mystery about life in 2024 America

"Case of the Soane Museum Thefts" unveils a crime of magical curation for its protagonist to puzzle over

Julie Ayer has crafted a detailed in-the-trenches history of the dedication of the Minnesota Orchestra musicians to save their orchestra from an ill-conceived plan that valued business structure over artistic excellence

and novelist he peers under the surface to discover what contradictions lie beneath

” --Pastor Mark Hurley

The Meadow and the Misread Author|Roy M. Close Traveler in an Antique LandThe Meadow and the Misread is about the intersection of memory and self, the way language is used to compartmentalize the whole pulsing blur of experience into distinct parts, and how the boundary between interior and exteriorself and otheris an illusion of memory and language. It also poses a question about agency, namely whether we can act upon the world, or if it only seems that way because we are stuck inside ourselves. In other words: Do we