County Highway

09/16/2026

In our latest issue, David Rosenbloom spends six weeks on the Montana-Yellowstone border following the tribal hunters, park rangers, ranchers, and activists caught in the century-long fight over what to do with buffalo that refuse to stay inside the park boundary.

America's Only Newspaper

09/15/2026

“In the future, maybe the machines will write love songs to Bob Dylan. Meanwhile, there is something uncanny about the fact that he’s standing right here in front of me, alive. What exactly am I supposed to do with this knowledge except make the comparison between the living being in front of me and the worlds he contains, and the world he will be leaving behind?”

David Samuels catches Bob Dylan on the last night of his Long Hot Summer Tour, joined onstage by Jimmie Vaughan and Lucinda Williams, where he catches one last look at the face of a man who has walked through fire before that long black cloud comes down for good.

Art by Katy Hunchar

09/15/2026

Sam Sussman recalls the loss of his innocence, when his childhood Yankees obsession became a full-time job in defeating the terrorists. It's free to read for a limited time on our archive.

America's Only Newspaper

09/11/2026

“When I look back on my childhood, it is hard not to feel that a paradise of belief was lost that night I went to sleep unable to imagine the Yankees could be defeated and woke to discover they had been. Not long afterward, my mother and stepfather divorced. My mother’s first new boyfriend accidentally set fire to our house, and my binders of baseball cards and collection of Yankee memorabilia, including the baseballs signed by David Cone and Clay Bellinger, were lost. The Yankees launched their own television network, broadcast rights were revoked from the public channel, and I could no longer watch even a few games each year. I wrote a letter explaining this untenable situation to Joe Torre, the Yankees manager, but he never replied.”

Sam Sussman recalls the loss of his innocence, when his childhood Yankees obsession became a full-time job in defeating the terrorists.

https://countyhighway.com/archive/volume-4/issue-2/yankees-win-sussman

Art by Bri Hermanson, photo courtesy AP Photo/Amy Sancetta

09/10/2026

“Meanwhile, at Indigenous Led, Cristina Mormorunni has launched Buffalo Beyond Borders, ‘a group of folks working toward the hundred-year vision to establish a buffalo corridor from Mexico to Canada that would allow them to reestablish their migratory pathways and begin healing and restoring the ecosystem with which they coevolved.’ For Mormorunni, Yellowstone is an essential front in that effort: ‘It’s like a mythical fight between the new West and the old West and the bu****it West, and I think there’s an incredible opportunity to take advantage of this as an inciting incident.’”

In our latest issue, David Rosenbloom spends six weeks on the Montana-Yellowstone border, following the tribal hunters, park rangers, ranchers, and activists caught in the century-long fight over what to do with buffalo that refuse to stay inside the park boundary.

09/10/2026

“Meanwhile, at Indigenous Led, Cristina Mormorunni has launched Buffalo Beyond Borders, ‘a group of folks working toward the hundred-year vision to establish a buffalo corridor from Mexico to Canada that would allow them to reestablish their migratory pathways and begin healing and restoring the ecosystem with which they coevolved.’ For Mormorunni, Yellowstone is an essential front in that effort: ‘It’s like a mythical fight between the new West and the old West and the bu****it West, and I think there’s an incredible opportunity to take advantage of this as an inciting incident.’”

In our latest issue, David Rosenbloom spends six weeks on the Montana-Yellowstone border, following the tribal hunters, park rangers, ranchers, and activists caught in the century-long fight over what to do with a wild buffalo that refuses to stay inside a park boundary.

Art by Sam Vanallemeersch

09/08/2026

“By morning I pulled up to a sign informing me that I was at the geographic center of Iowa.
‘You can hear the corn grow,’ they say, so I stood for a while amongst the fields, which spread out in every direction forever, and waited. ‘I close my eyes and listen / To hear the corn come out’ crooned Arthur Russell in my head. The stalks shuddered in the breeze. I was beginning to understand what he felt when he wrote ‘Iowa Dream.’”

In our latest issue, Valen Lambert cycles across Iowa during RAGBRAI — the world’s longest, oldest, and largest recreational bike event.

https://countyhighway.com/archive/volume-4/issue-2/americas-tour-de-corn-lambert

📷 by Steve Sundermann

09/04/2026

With the coming autumn and its invitation to slow down and take ‘er easy, we’ve just printed an extended 24-page round-up of all our summer adventures, from Colorado to Iowa to Pennsylvania and Montana, featuring Sam Sussman’s childhood Yankees obsession in the wake of 9/11, Valen Lambert bicycling amid endless corn fields, Miles Zaud’s dispatch from the National Rainbow Gathering, Sandeep Kaushik tracing Seattle’s downfall, and Jim Shepard’s return with an excerpt from his forthcoming short story collection.

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09/02/2026

“I want to tell you a little about myself,” reads the opening line of Eve Babitz’s “Eve’s Hollywood.” “I am really an artist, not a writer.”

Before Eve Babitz became the literary icon she’s known as today, she designed and photographed some of the era’s most recognizable album covers.

1. Leon Russell - Hank Wilson’s Back!
2. Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
3. Fusion - Border Town
4. Lord Buckley - The Best of Lord Buckley
5. The Byrds - (Untitled)/(Unissued)
6. Danny O’Keefe - Danny O’Keefe
7. Buffalo Springfield - The Best of Buffalo Springfield
8. Horses - Horses
9. Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel

09/01/2026

Over the course of the 16 months, Chandler Fritz reported on the ground in Bibb County, Alabama, to investigate one of the most horrifying accusations of child sex-abuse in American history. Read Part I of his report in our latest issue:

“Given the characterizations of everyone I had spoken to, I imagined Darden Road to be deep in the interior of the county, far beyond the centers of both towns. I had already driven some of those backwoods in search of old churches to photograph, and was struck by how often they deposited me into dead ends, secretive places. I felt, in the backcountry surrounding Brent and Centreville that I now knew what poets meant by ‘a dark wood.’ Even in broad daylight, the pines swallowed up light and sound and made a cocoon in which my own fears drew up against me until, with only the trees watching, I finally had to turn the car around.
I did not have to brave the backwoods to reach Darden Road, though. The turnoff was easily marked 1.7 miles south of Brent’s police station, off Main Street.”

https://countyhighway.com/.../issue-1/the-bunker-fritz

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