The Pink Nectar Café

Sadly the once wild west is urbanizing as once secret canyons are threatened by helicopter landing pads and time share palaces are being built with bathrooms large enough for corporate jets. Yet taken as a whole, the essays in the Pink Nectar Café make a powerful case for the Southwest still North America's most enduringly unknowable and iconoclastic locale, remaining "the northern mystery" in the words of the 16th century Spanish conquerors.