Selected Reading
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Sarah Smarsh – Murdock, Kansas
Sarah Smarsh & rural Kingman County—the soil of the Kansas prairie and the complex, contradictory stories we tell about ourselves.
Miriam Davis Colt – Allen County, Kansas
Miriam Davis Colt & the Vegetarian Settlement Company—choosing what to carry and what to leave behind.
Ben Lerner – Topeka, Kansas
Ben Lerner & Topeka High School—a teenage debate champion looks down on generations of high school students.
Jotham Meeker – Franklin County, Kansas
Jotham Meeker & the California Road—migrant traces at the Ottawa Mission cemetery.
Truman Capote – Garden City, Kansas
Truman Capote & Garden City, KS—new to town to research In Cold Blood, Capote and Harper Lee are invited to Christmas dinner.
Ron Wilson – Manhattan, Kansas
Ron Wilson & Lazy T Ranch—the Poet Laureate of Kansas talking poetry and connection with the state’s Poet Lariat.
Nellie Maxey – Kinsley, Kansas
Nellie Maxey & Sod House Museum—moving cross-country to Kinsley, KS, 100 years apart.
Niki Smith – Junction City, Kansas
Niki Smith & Rock Springs Ranch—a children’s librarian on the healing possibilities of 4-H camp, in both real life and graphic novels.
Is This the World We Really Want?
Art, Tech and Queer coming-of-middle-age in Forget I Told You This
A Beauty Parlor, a Movie Theater and a Bunch of Sofas
The intimate literary spaces of The Unbound Book Festival
Friendly Folk at the Oddball Hoedown Contra Dance
A tradition based on socializing starts to bring Kansas citians back together
A Complicated Inheritance
Family, fortune and fracking on the frontier
Subversion and Enchantment
Thrilling new fairy tales for a contemporary readership
Restless in Spirit, Rootless in Place
Searching to belong in a world on the brink
Bringing Us Home
Somebody Somewhere revels in quiet regionality on one of tv’s biggest networks
Forever in Stages of Becoming
8 stories on intimacy, magic and desire
Slugs for the Next Generation
Snail watching may be the hobby you never knew you needed
A Minnesota Sound
The Ides of Dessa.
A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock ‘n Roll
May’s Place: slow fashion with midwestern boots.
Seeds for the Next Generation
The poetry of Minari
Wrestling as Faith and Creed
A study of strength, grief and obsession
There is A Longing
10 TENDER, FIERCE STORIES THAT GIVE VOICE TO THE LAND
A Place That Defies Definition
“A place that transcends boundaries, that defies definition, a body that holds within it a multitude of identities.”
The Room is Not A Metaphor
“For seven years now the Fire Room has played host to intimate concert experiences for rock, rockabilly, blues, Americana, folk, alt-country and country music.”
Dispatches From the Heart of Fast-Food Nation
Unveiling the human condition through food in El Dorado Freddy’s
Consider the Carp
What one invasive fish reveals about the challenge of managing nature at huge scales
Time to Rebuild
Slim, lyrical memoir deconstructs our ideas of borders, connectedness and charitable aid.
Find Your Medicine and Use It
Music so sunny it may change your outlook.
Deceit in the Sunflower State
The first adult novel from Kansas City author Amy Engel
A Nest with a View
Even migrating birds need to nest. One mother’s reckoning with rootedness.
Intelligent Americana Fresh from Oklahoma
Watch out for twins bearing guitars. Annie Oakley’s live shows are as good as their namesake.
The Midwest, Revisited
Don’t be fooled by its slim size. The New Midwest packs a punch in regional literary criticism.
New Proverbs
Defiantly honest stories test the roots of this Kansas City honky tonker’s debut solo album.