A Rectified Horoscope of W. G. Sebald

I forget exactly when I first discovered the German writer, W. G. Sebald. It was in the few years after his death from a heart attack in 2001, at age 57. He had been publishing books in German since the late 1980s, and it was only with the English publication of his book The Emigrants

Joe Elliott, Part 1: Rectifying the Chart

Joe Elliott was my great grandfather: the father of my maternal grandmother, Virginia Elliott. He was born on May 2, 1860, in LeRoy, Wisconsin. He started his adult life as a surveyor and cowboy in Wyoming in the late 1870s. In his mid-twenties, he began working as a deputy sheriff and as an investigator for