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BEFORE I WENT TO Manaus, a port city in Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest, I knew one thing about it, and was not sure if it was even true. It was the story dramatized in Werner Herzog’s titular film ...

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Bryce Andrews lives on a farm in western Montana. His first book, Badluck Way, was published in 2014 and received several awards. His second, Down from the Mountain ...

Colleen Leonardi is a writer, editor-in-chief of Edible Columbus, and managing editor of Edible Indy. She is currently working on her first book in memory of her ...