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“Doyle’s great gift, I feel is that he charts for us one small corner of the world and, in doing so, reveals that it is no more out-of-the-way than anywhere else, really, once you give it a listen. He puts that one small place on the map and does so with humor and a great feeling of shared humanity.”—Tim Wynne-Jones, “A Tribute to Brian Doyle,” WLT Vol. 80, May 2006