by Susanna Daniel | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
You don’t need to know anything about Maggie Ginsberg to adore her first novel. You don’t need to know that she’s a truly lovely person, warm and generous of spirit. The kind of person who offers her secrets to help you heal your own. All of this is irrelevant because...
by Michelle Wildgen | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Debra Monroe’s writing is sneaky, and I mean that in a good way. In her new book of essays, the Flannery O’Connor award winner and author of six other books of fiction and nonfiction considers roughly 40 years of her life, offering such measured observation and calm...
by Dwight Allen | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
There can’t be many novels with titles shorter than the one that adorns Ink, Madison writer Angela Woodward’s third book of fiction; nor are there likely to be many novels in which short essays about the chemistry of ink (and the nature of other monosyllabic...
by Jeanie Tomasko | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Winter mornings I walk outside before the world starts up again. An occasional car, the early bus with one person on it. Sometimes the wind hasn’t even started and the heat from the chimneys of all the sleepers rises up above the houses. Snow and ice crack under my...
by Claire Lewandowski | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
This isn’t a protest, you understand.Bonfire in May with wood that’s gone dry,we’re burning the things that cannot withstand. My brother and grandma both see to this landas soldier turned farmer and farmer gone by.This isn’t a protest, you understand. Grandma is...
by Jim Landwehr | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
It’s still a ways away. It’s going to go away, you know. It’s still there. It is, or it isn’t. It’s in the mail. It’s in the console. It’s the perfect fit. It’s me versus you. It’s something we can all look back to. It’s forward looking. It’s around here somewhere....
