PositiveThe NationPart folk history, part gonzo travelogue, The Quiet Zone colorfully annotates an elaborate contradiction: a last bastion of the disconnected world, making its final stand at the foot of a 485-foot radio telescope that astronomers use to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Kurczy finds high drama and dark secrets in the woods, but he also captures the complex beauty of a disconnected way of life that is dying out at an alarming rate ... Kurczy’s meandering prose readily dips into anecdote and almost never arrives at the point too soon ... An old-school journalist who proudly ditched his cell phone in 2009, Kurczy makes his allegiances clear from the outset.
