by B.J. Hollars | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
Here in western Wisconsin, pretty much everyone knows author Nickolas Butler—this reviewer included. The appeal of Butler’s writing is not found just in his Northwoods focus, but also in deftly drawn characters that remind us of our friends and neighbors. In Little...
by AnnaKay Kruger | Feb 13, 2019 | Magazine Article
Kyle and I arrived at his parents’ house in the early evening. He had barely removed the key from the ignition when his mother, Caroline, appeared at my window. Her face was obscured in the evening shadow, save for the whites of her eyes and her teeth as she smiled at...
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 Michael Hopkins, Jenna Rindo, Thomas Erickson, Justine Jones, AnnaKay Kruger | Oct 12, 2018 | Videos
Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture, presents a Wisconsin Book Festival reading featuring the winners of the 2018 Fiction & Poetry Contest hosted by editor Jason A. Smith. Fiction readings...
