Just Listen: The Sculptor's Funeral
b'Two things I find striking and worthy of special note in today\\u2019s selection by Willa Cather, \\u201cThe Sculptor\\u2019s Funeral.\\u201d\\xa0One is the sense of place that is keen in the story\\u2014that of a frozen, barren plains town in the throes of winter--which harkens back to her injunction, \\u201cLet your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.\\u201d\\xa0The other is the great insight she displays in describing uneasy groups of men in this story\\u2014men gathered to receive a coffin in the frozen night and men gathered to mourn one not quite their own.'