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Ashley Hope Pérez teaches literature at Ohio State University and is the author of three novels. Her latest, Out of Darkness, centers on a 1937 school explosion in East Texas. “3:17,” a short story based on the same event, won the 2013 Observer short story contest.

Articles by Ashley Hope Perez

THE CITY AT THREE P.M.: WRITING, READING, AND TRAVELING Peter LaSalle DZANC BOOKS 264 PAGES; $15.95

Peter LaSalle Seizes the Day

The ordinary particulars of being a person figure into LaSalle's new collection of essays, which bucks the obnoxious disembodied quality that sometimes afflicts travel writing.

by Ashley Hope Perez