Mending Ruth
Saukfield in late August gives up the ghost of summer with abrupt abandon. End of day temperatures drop with sudden coolness like an American Spirit extinguished... Read more.
Bob Wake: Fiction & Poetry winners' live reading series
Bob Wake shares a reading of his award-winning story, “Mudstone,” from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. Bob Wake lives in Cambridge.... Read more.
Interior States, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
Meghan O’Gieblyn brings something more than a wicked sense of humor and a keen critical eye to her debut collection of essays, Interior States. Homeschooled in... Read more.
Wisconsin People & Ideas 2017 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading
Watch the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading at the 2017 Wisconsin Book Festival, featuring some of Wisconsin’s best writers... Read more.
Mudstone
This was something Joy Frisk told us one August night around a campfire on a bluff overlooking the boathouse. Joy Frisk was high. Pain meds, most likely. Once in... Read more.
Split Personality, by Karla Huston and Cathryn Cofell
You have to admire a poetry chapbook whose self-contradicting opening line trumpets, “Now is not the time to begin …” The poem, “Digging in the Fat Box,”... Read more.
American Boy, by Larry Watson
“The power of human desire is matched only by our inability to express those desires,” explains Matthew Garth, the teenage narrator of Larry Watson’s American... Read more.