Sep 30, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Novelists, Volume 12
Jim Harrison Mixed Coniferous ForestOsceola County, Michigan By Camden Burd “What we think of our hometown is our first substantial map of the world,” Jim Harrison wrote in his 2002 memoir, Off to the Side. A hometown takes the mishappen clay of a person and molds...
Sep 30, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, North Dakota, Novelists, Volume 12
Louis L’Amour World’s Largest BuffaloJamestown, North Dakota By Sheila Liming The most famous writer to ever come out of North Dakota never wrote anything that takes place there. Louis L’Amour often talked about revisiting his home state, which he left at the age of...
May 2, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 11
Thomas Hart Benton Mark Twain National Forest Shell Knob, Missouri By Aaron Hadlow There is a burled oak tree that stands on the knuckle of a ridge finger behind my parent’s house in Shell Knob, Missouri. Despite its disfigurement, the oak is otherwise straight and...
May 2, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Novelists, Volume 11
Bonnie Jo Campbell H House Comstock, Michigan By Lisa DuRose The Kalamazoo River flows right through the center of Comstock, Michigan, behind the library and township hall and the 24-hour gas station. Past Merrill Park where people feed bread to ducks. It floods every...
May 2, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Volume 11
Hunter S. Thompson Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky By Charlie Cy In the spring of 1970, thirty-two-year-old writer Hunter S. Thompson returned to his hometown of Louisville to cover the 96th running of the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan’s Monthly. Less than 72 hours...
May 2, 2023 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 11
Lisel Mueller 27240 N. Longwood Dr. Forest Haven, Illinois By Jenny Mueller “Our trees are aspens, but people / mistake them for birches” — so begins Lisel Mueller’s “Another Version,” set in 1970s Midwestern suburbia. This proves to be a territory of error. After...
