by Kim Suhr | May 9, 2019 | Magazine Article
Alistair and I do our homework at the island in the kitchen while, at the stove, Mom stirs pasta fazool. The smell of onions and garlic makes my stomach growl and almost tricks me into thinking things can be the same as they were before Mom lost her job three months...
by Jason Smith | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
People don’t generally think of Wisconsin when they think of book publishing. But a small, independent publishing house nestled in the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point campus has been churning out a book a year since 1984 while encouraging students to pursue...
by Dave Cieslewicz | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
According to Peter Annin, the future is all about water. And here in Wisconsin, we’ve got it. The problem is: The rest of the world wants it. In a newly revised and expanded edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars, which was first released in 2006, Annin has written...
by Bob Wake | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
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 Michigan by evangelical Baptist parents, O’Gieblyn later studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After...
by Kiyoko Reidy | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
the day before they found her baby tuckedinto that crawlspace for safekeeping,i sat on the kitchen floor in front of her,just two houses down from my own,knobbed bones of her knees dimpling my backwhile she tugged my hair into cornrows—racing stripes down my little...
