Susan Volchok is a New York writer born and bred who has only recently begun to balance extensive overseas travel with American adventures, including that overnight in Susanville. She has published widely in journals and anthologies ranging from The Kenyon Review, n +1, and The Virginia Quarterly to Best American Erotica, and in mainstream magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times. Besides authoring fiction and essays, she is a licensed New York City guide offering New York Walks.
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With wildfires blazing in Southern Oregon and Northern California, we homed in on Susanville as the ninth night’s destination, for the most obvious of reasons (beyond, I mean, its seemingly safe distance from the uncontainable conflagration).
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