Dec 18, 2022 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Poets, Volume 10, Writers of Color
Gordon Parks Marmaton RiverFort Scott, Kansas By Jeromiah Taylor The grass is fuchsia, the sky bluntly cold, and the horizon swathed in haze. It is late November on the Osage Plains. In southeast Kansas, the distinction between grassland and woodland, or plain and...
Sep 7, 2022 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 9, Writers of Color
Hugo Martinez-Serros South Chicago City DumpChicago, IL By Emiliano Aguilar Chicago’s South Side is littered with the remains of its industrial past. From the façade of the former US Steel South Works to sites bustling with activity, such as the Pullman National...
May 25, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 8, Wisconsin
August Derleth Rail BridgeSauk City, Wisconsin By Kassie Jo Baron Sauk City, Wisconsin, is best known as the home of the first Culver’s. Then probably the annual Cow Chip Throw, where residents spend Labor Day weekend seeing who can throw dried cow poop the farthest....
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 8, Writers of Color
Richard Wright 4831 S. Vincennes Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Joseph S. Pete Powell’s Books used to have a few locations in Chicago, none anywhere near as large as the fabled city block full of books in Portland. Now only its venerable Hyde Park bookstore remains, but I...
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 8
Lew Wallace Grand Kankakee MarshPorter County, Indiana By Matthew A. Werner Indiana once had one of the greatest natural habitats in North America: the Grand Kankakee Marsh. Author Lew Wallace loved it so much, he kept a houseboat on its thruway, the Kankakee River....
Feb 23, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nature, Novelists, Volume 7
Mark Twain Mark Twain Cave Hannibal, Missouri By Avery Gregurich It was said that one might wander days and nights together through its intricate tangle of rifts and chasms, and never find the end of the cave; and that he might go down, and down, and still down, into...
