Oct 6, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 5, Wisconsin
NORBERT BLEI Al Johnson’s Swedish RestaurantSister Bay, Wisconsin By Jenna Goldsmith Before Americans were obsessed with the Swedish practice of fika, Norbert Blei was perfecting it at Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant and Butik in Sister Bay, Wisconsin....
Oct 6, 2021 | Arkansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Poets, Volume 5
MAYA ANGELOU Angelou MemorialStamps, Arkansas By Greer Veon Despite living in southwest Arkansas most of my life, my first visit to Stamps was with my parents in August 2018. We made the trip on a Sunday afternoon before my flight back north the following...
Oct 6, 2021 | Author Houses, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 5, Writers of Color
SANDRA CISNEROS 1525 N. Campbell Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Olga L. Herrera I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s in the Little Village neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago. At the time, the area was in transition between Eastern Europeans leaving for the suburbs...
Oct 6, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 5
S.E. HINTON CrutchfieldTulsa, Oklahoma By Caleb Freeman One day in the winter of 1981, when the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel The Outsiders was still in pre-production, Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola, the film’s director, rode double on a...
Oct 6, 2021 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Ohio, Poets, Volume 5
SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT William Henry Harrison TombNorth Bend, Ohio By Sean Andres It’s not hard to find something of historical significance in the Cincinnati area, but many people don’t even think about North Bend. The town was founded by John Cleves Symmes,...
