by Barry Radler | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
University of Wisconsin–Madison psychology professor Richard Davidson’s recent book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You Can Change Them (co-authored with veteran science writer Sharon Begley),...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
In April 2009, Boswell Book Company opened its doors on the East Side of Milwaukee. Located in the old Harry W. Schwartz Booksellers space on Downer Avenue, Boswell picked up the torch from the defunct Milwaukee-area chain, which closed in 2008 after 82 years in...
by Robert Vaughan | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When I tell people what I do, the question I am most commonly asked right after “What do you write?” is, “What is flash fiction?” This usually leaves me wondering how I might summarize this easily enough so I don’t confound their question even more. Short stories have...
by Jared Felix | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
A self-proclaimed tinkerer and 2010 graduate of the Mechanical Engineering Masters Program at UW–Madison, Chris Meyer has always longed for a space beyond the university laboratory to experiment. “Schools don’t always provide spaces or even time for freeform...
by James Sajdak | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”—Jorge Luis Borges While we might take for granted these wonderful places that loan us books for free, it might surprise us to learn that libraries have not always been the public access institutions of...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
At first glance the title of my editorial in this issue might seem to be satirical. After all, the term job creators has been bandied about for the last twenty years as a way of characterizing what some see as the primary animating force of the American economy. Poets...
