Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of The Mad Feast and Preparing the Ghost, which was reviewed on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette, Michigan.
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For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed 'overmined' and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an ... SEE MORE