Sep 17, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Minnesota, Novelists, Volume 2
F. Scott Fitzgerald 599 Summit AvenueSt. Paul, Minnesota By Ross K. Tangedal In fall 2016, my wife, CJ, was four months pregnant, and we decided to visit the Minnesota State Fair at the insistence of my cousin Michael, a Minneapolis resident and state fair aficionado....
Sep 11, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 2
Helen Hooven Santmyer Greene County CourthouseXenia, Ohio By Jacob A. Bruggeman I first visited Xenia, Ohio, a small city in the state’s southwestern corner, on a hot May afternoon in 2018. Headed north from Cincinnati on Interstate 71, smoke started rising out from...
Sep 11, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 1
Wright Morris Boyhood HomeCentral City, Nebraska By Nathan Tye For Wright Morris, home was both a physical place and emotional ache. Born in Central City, Nebraska, in 1910, Morris made his life elsewhere, but returned to the Platte Valley in his writing and...
Sep 11, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Novelists, Volume 1
William Gass ParkviewSt. Louis, Missouri By Devin Thomas O’Shea The epigraph of The Tunnel reads, “The descent to hell is the same from every place,” but William Gass chose to set his magnum opus in a leafy suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, called Parkview. Parkview is...
Sep 11, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Novelists, Volume 3
Henry Bellamann Brick District PlayhouseFulton, Missouri By Alex Dzurick The 1940 novel Kings Row once so offended residents of Fulton, Missouri, that you couldn’t find a copy on the shelves of the local library. You could, however, in the very same town, find a copy...
