Daniel Stolar is the author of the short story collection The Middle of
the Night. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared
in a number of literary magazines. He teaches at DePaul University in Chicago, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Like Freedom, Keith Scribner’s third book, The Oregon Experiment, is hugely ambitious, decidedly modern, distinctly American novel, with complicated family dynamics, and remarkable depth of character and psychological nuance.
“For days after the birth Treadway knew there was a secret. He felt the secret exactly as he felt the presence of a white ptarmigan behind him in the snow,…