Pichaske’s stories take us from the halls of academe to small-townMinnesota to a little village on the edge of the Bavarian NationalForest. Speaking in voices of a farmer right out of Deliverance, a disgruntled professor of English, and his dog Harley, Pichaske says what many people think, but few have the courage to say. While he is especially strong on details of history, place, and language, the hard-nosed wisdom his narrators offer transcends place and even time.