The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log

Dan Newland celebrates his addiction to storytelling and writing in a twice-monthly blog. Essays, stories and comments on writers, writing and life in general. Publications are announced on Facebook to the following address: https://www.facebook.com/patagonian.yankee/ and through The Southern Yankee mailing list, which readers can join by requesting inclusion and sending their email addresses, in a private message, to the same FB address.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

RECALLING REBA MAE

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Reba Mae on her 50th wedding anniversary   May is my mother Reba Mae’s month. Her birthday and Mother’s Day are within a few short days of e...
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Sunday, April 13, 2025

ETHNIC CLEANSING AMERICAN STYLE

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Louise Erdrich   I’ve just finished reading The Night Watchman, yet another masterpiece by one of my favorite writers, Louise Erdrich. To me...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

A RECURRENT NIGHTMARE

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Last week marked the forty-ninth anniversary of the military coup in Argentina that would mark seven years of my career in journalism. I’ve ...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

UNINSPIRED MALAISE

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  I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed lately. Actually, a lot overwhelmed. I think a lot of people have. Indeed, I know so. This—this s...
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Dan Newland
A native of Ohio, Dan Newland has lived, worked and traveled in South America since 1973. Besides free-lancing for major US and British publications for more than two decades, he was a reporter, editor and commentator for 13 years with the Buenos Aires Herald, a daily renowned for its valiant human rights campaign during Argentina’s bloody era of military rule. Newland is now a free-lance writer, translator, editor and ghost. Based in Patagonia, he is currently pursuing his life-long interest in fiction, on subjects from what he calls his “dual life”, lived in both the heartland of the United States and the southernmost reaches of South America. North American by birth and sentiment, Patagonian by affinity and choice, he is a true Southern Yankee.
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