Scribbling

by Angela Trudell Vasquez | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article

I prefer crowds with voices echoingup and down the train cars, city bus gears singing     stop hereexhaust spewing, laughs rolling to the page—boots, heels, sneakers step on and off the curb,      voices flood ears become stolen dialogue in ink. I write in public to...

My mother is a social worker who works in a hospital

by Oscar Mireles | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article

My mother is a social worker who works in a hospitalshe makes daily visits          checks her chartsshares small talk with the patientsas she brightens up their rooms My mother is a social worker who works in a hospitalshe is always the first one at the scenejust...

Montaigne in Barn Boots, by Michael Perry

by Mari Carlson | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article

Michael Perry, a pig farmer and bestselling author of books about life in rural Wisconsin, decided to immerse himself in the essays of sixteenth-century politician-turned-philosopher Michel de Montaigne while recuperating from kidney stones. In Montaigne in Barn...

The Philosopher's Flight, by Tom Miller

by Erik Richardson | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article

The Philosopher’s Flight, by University of Wisconsin Hospital emergency room doctor and first-time author Tom Miller, combines magical realism with coming-of-age romance and swashbuckling adventure. Miller’s fantasy novel is set in America in the early years of World...

Like This, Like That

by Elizabeth Wyckoff | Apr 27, 2018 | Magazine Article

Me and Janie and Melissa, we want to be other women. Not the women we are expected to be, but the ones we’ve seen on television and read about in novels. Women we barely remember from movies we watched as little girls. Older women. Wealthy women. Sad, married women....