Great Writing from Chip Brown in the New York Times Magazine

Back in early February, Brown authored an article on the North Dakota oil boom.  It is a great piece of reporting. Also, a fine bit of writing, as captured by this sentence:

In a way, of course, this kind of frontier is as much a state of mind as an actual place, a melancholy mood you can’t shake as you drive all day in a raw spring rain with nothing but fence posts and featureless cattle range for company thinking, Is this all there is? until finally you get out at some windswept intersection and gratefully fall on the fellowship of a dog-faced bar with a jukebox of songs about people on their way to somewhere else.

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