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<strong>TOP READ</strong>: Both Longreads and The Daily Beast have put Kiera Feldman's "Grace in Broken Arrow" in the top spot on their lists of the top longreads of 2012, besting other great pieces from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Washington Post and others (see the lists: http://thebea.st/VHJEWU and http://bit.ly/12UcGZO). Congrats to Kiera, and thanks to all of you for your continued support of This Land Press.

<strong>BEST OF 2012</strong>: Check out the most-popular stories featured in <em>This Land</em> last year, plus <a href="http://thislandpress.com/roundups/the-best-of-this-land-sights-and-sounds-from-2012/" target="_blank">our most popular video and audio pieces</a>.

<strong>GOING BACK TO TULSA</strong>: New York native Mary Beth Fisher relocated to Tulsa for a man—Leon Russell.

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<strong>THE STUFF OF DREAMS</strong>: Thomas Conner explores the Woody Guthrie archives—all 10,000 pieces of it—and their move to Oklahoma, "<a href="http://thislandpress.com/03/09/2012/the-stuff-of-dreams/" target="_blank">a whole lotta fuss about some stuff</a>."

<strong>DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS</strong>: The open road makes the perfect hunting ground for serial killers turned truck drivers, <a href="http://thislandpress.com/04/04/2012/drive-by-truckers/" target="_blank">Contributing Editor Ginger Strand discovered</a>.

<strong>AS SEEN ON TV</strong>: In this narrative from our archives, Teresa Miller recalls an eccentric childhood where television wasn't off limits, but <a href="http://thislandpress.com/11/24/2010/before-there-was-color/" target="_blank">answers to painful questions about her mother were</a>. 



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