Isaac Hamlet has a story he’s been crafting and recrafting for quite some time. Recently,…
Books and Writers
As the calendar turns to November, we enter the darkest portion of the year—the period…
For quite a while now, I’ve devoted this space to conversations with Iowa’s indie authors—the…
This month, I’m sharing some thoughts about a range of books I’ve been reading and…
At age 12, Polo Altynski-Ross took on the daunting task of documenting his family’s dramatic…
Longtime readers of this column know that I write about Lawrence Block and his work…
Dennis Maulsby is a versatile writer hailing from Ames who took up writing as a…
Many of us baby-boomer farm kids recall growing up in the 1950s and ’60s walkin’…
Mary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel is a delight. That’s a sentence I easily could have…
(Our apologies! The April 15 reading listed in the e-newsletter was in 2021!) When Russia…
For many years, Mary Helen Stefaniak has contributed her warm, contemplative, and playful essays to…
As a high school student in Iowa, I was an avid follower of MAD Magazine.…
Admittedly, the idea of a bunch of indie (that is, self-published) authors discussing what they…
Hear Renée Branum talk about her acclaimed new novel, Defenestrate, in a Zoom event sponsored…
In a recent virtual event, host Terri LeBlanc of Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion, Iowa,…