In western Minnesota, a writer rooted in two worlds seeks common ground

Brent Olson, photographed on Oct. 23 in Clinton, Minn., has been a farmer, a county commissioner and a short order cook. He built this writer's cabin so he can be a full-time writer in retirement.
Dan Gunderson | MPR News
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Brent Olson’s newspaper columns reach several hundred thousand mostly rural readers across the country. Despite his liberal politics, “the readers I meet seem to have a fondness for me. They think of me as the loudmouth cousin at the end of the Thanksgiving dinner table.”