Ryan Kelly

@ryandelarge.bsky.social

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Writer and editor. https://nothingiswritten.blog/

“If one attitude can be said to characterize America’s regard for immigration over the past two hundred years it is the belief that while immigration was unquestionably a wise and prescient thing in the case of one’s parents or grandparents, it really ought to stop now.” - Bill Bryson, ‘Made in America’, (1994)
The back cover of ‘Made in America’ by Bill Bryson, which includes the line “Buy this book at once and have a nice day”.
Snippet of Gore Vidal’s 1994 essay in The Nation magazine.