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...
Feb 23, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Minnesota, Poets, Volume 7, Writers of Color
Heid E. Erdrich All My Relations Art Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota By Elizabeth Wilkinson All My Relations Art Gallery is on Franklin Avenue, 1.1 miles from my house, in the Ventura Village neighborhood of Minneapolis. This section of Franklin Ave is called the...
Feb 22, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 7
Meridel Le Sueur Miner’s Shack Picher, Oklahoma By Joe Schiller The shacks huddled haphazard and crosswise, scattered between the chat piles. Leaky roofs, knotholes, and loose-swinging doors let the dust in on any decent breeze. In Picher, Oklahoma, nobody built for...
Feb 22, 2022 | Author Houses, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 7
Jean Shepherd 2907 Cleveland Street Hammond, Indiana By Samuel Love “Ours was not a genteel neighborhood,” Jean Shepherd wrote of Hohman, his fictional Northwest Indiana hometown. The opening story from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey’s Night Of Golden Memories and Other...
Feb 22, 2022 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 7
Mari Sandoz Gravesite Sheridan County, Nebraska By C.J. Janovy It’s not easy to get to the final resting place of Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz, whose books, I’ll go ahead and argue, evoke one region of America as powerfully as William Faulkner’s portray another. Paying...
