May 9, 2024 | Drama, Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Volume 14
William Inge Riverside Park Independence, Kansas By Autumn Finley 🎧 Listen at HPPR Growing up in a flyover state, I never much considered the literary merit of my home in the southeast corner of Kansas. Apart from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie,...
May 2, 2023 | Author Houses, Drama, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Volume 11
Tennessee Williams 4633 Westminster Place St. Louis, Missouri By Devin Thomas O’Shea Tennessee Williams called St. Louis “cold, smug, complacent, intolerant, stupid and provincial,” in a 1947 interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, playing the heel to his...
Dec 18, 2022 | Drama, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Volume 10
John Augustus Stone Main StreetMetamora, Indiana By Heather Chacón My first memory of Metamora, Indiana, is of being twelve and sitting on a wooden bench on the front porch of an old house-turned-shop with my friend, Holly. It is December. Above us hang several pieces...
