by Mark Zimmermann | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
Science writer and naturalist Scott Spoolman not only knows Wisconsin’s natural world well, his fine new book, Wisconsin State Parks: Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History, reflects a lifetime spent in the woods and wilds of the state. Part guidebook...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
If you’re looking for sentimentality, you won’t find it in The Collected Stories of Carol Wobig. Channeling the work of Elizabeth Strout, Alice Munro, and Marilynne Robinson, the Menomonee Falls-based Wobig crafts stories inhabited by calloused, practical, proud...
by Ronnie Hess | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
The New York Times critic A.O. Scott, writing in praise of the American short story in a 2009 article, noted how this particular prose form, sometimes maligned as minor or vestigial, could do more than a novel to illuminate the textures of ordinary life and the...
by Jeri McCormick | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
Reticent, needs drawing out, Miss Rinehart scribbled on my sixth-grade report card. I vowed to never return, but instead found myself rehearsing for the class play. Co-stars Eugene and I headed a cast of tall flowers played by the pluckier pupils whose costumes were...
by Elisabeth Harrahy | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
She chops onions dumps themin black beans garnishedwith overcooked porkadds cumin and rosemaryleftover out-of-dateserendipity for the poorlined neatly on the other sidethe first wears ski pants in summersmiles at her then bends to sharehis dream of a perfect...
by Kathryn Gahl | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
Act I Put me where I am usefuljust beneath the topsoilhalf-inch down of warmthand wet loam in my handspitch me a shovel or rakelet me get up when the sunsplits land from sky and blazes There’s work to be done Act II Tell me to rest when darkness fallsthough I keep...
