by Rudy Koshar | Nov 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
Cora Gutierrez distrusted good news. So on the Friday when she learned her temporary lectureship in Environmental Studies at Cal State Long Beach was renewed for another year, her future snarled like an angry Doberman. Not that she was unhappy. She laughed with...
by Jason Smith | Nov 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
It took about fifteen passes through a Chandler and Price 10×15 Old Style press before Daniel Goscha realized that something was wrong. Small sections of hand-set type—14 point Bodoni to be exact—weren’t printing, making Max Garland’s poem almost unreadable....
by Laura Lane | Aug 7, 2013 | Magazine Article
What if you had to relive the last year of your life? Would you make different choices the second time around? The Repeat Year, the debut novel from Milwaukee author Andrea Lochen, explores the notions of fate and destiny while questioning how much control one has...
by Joseph Heim | Aug 7, 2013 | Magazine Article
The new book by veteran reporters Jason Stein and Patrick Marley is likely to be the definitive chronicle of the first two years of Scott Walker’s term as Governor of Wisconsin. Straddling the line between journalists and witnesses to history, Stein and Marley provide...
by Jane Elder | Aug 2, 2013 | Magazine Article
My favorite passage from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi is the part in which Twain writes about learning from his river boat pilot how to “read the water.” “The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book,” writes Twain, a book that was a dead language...
