Geographic Comfort Zones in Literature by Dave Astor

"A gift of a book I have yet to read gave me the idea for this post.

How can that be? Well, the Silent House novel I received last month is by Orhan Pamuk of Turkey. The country that Nobel Prize winner is from reminded me that I and many other readers have a geographic comfort zone when it comes to literature..."  

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-astor/geographic-comfort-zones-_b_2877532.html?utm_hp_ref=books

Dave Astor's memoir Comic (and Column) Confessional (Xenos Press, 2012) includes a preface by Heloise; back-cover endorsements by Arianna Huffington, "The Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson and others; appearances by Hillary Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Coretta Scott King, Martha Stewart and others; and a mix of humor and heartache.