by Christopher Chambers | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
I don’t entirely judge a book by its cover, but I do appreciate a well-designed one. Anthony Bukoski’s The Blondes of Wisconsin is a good-looking book—though the image of the old red brick warehouse on the cover creates some dissonance. It turns out that the warehouse...
by Gary Jones | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
A family’s history, like an old jigsaw puzzle, often has missing pieces, stories forgotten or kept secret. A present generation looks at old black-and-white photos, at miscellaneous mementos, or, sometimes, at a few hand written letters, and tries to piece together...
by Barbara Kriegsmann | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
Eva would tell her father about the proposal herself. For her mother had kielbasy to make for the Pope and could think of nothing else, the request coming as it did from the Cardinal, and his courier coming to pick up the sausage by evening. And then, thought Eva as...
by Jennifer Morales | Mar 8, 2021 | Magazine Article
The woman stands in a yellow sundress and sandals, snow circling her blue ankles. It’s January in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and she’s out on the street half-naked. She’s not one of the beggars that Dan’s father, Buck, had told him to expect. She’s not asking for money....
by Kim Suhr, Chris Fink | Jan 11, 2021 | Magazine Article
“Who’s native and who’s been introduced?” asks a character in Chris Fink’s story, “The Bush Robin Sings.” The question in many ways fits tidily into the other stories within his new collection, Add This to the List of Things...
