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When a friend suggested we take a trip to Southeast Oklahoma to attend a Bigfoot conference, I laughed. What started as a joke grew into curiosity and, ultimately, a plan. Committing to attend was a game of chicken, and yet, as the warm October weekend approached, no...
Rob Roensch recasts the coming-of-age tale deep in the Midwest in his third book and debut novel, In the Morning, The City Is the Prairie. Matt, a college dropout, can only cycle through his second shift at the local Costco, stalling out his life, relationships and...
On my 17th birthday, in a small Michigan town much like the one depicted in The Waters, I sat between my grandmothers as they reminded me that each of them had married at 17. Of course, one of them laughed, she hadn’t stayed married for long. I knew this; she had left...
Art, Tech and Queer coming-of-middle-age in Forget I Told You This
The intimate literary spaces of The Unbound Book Festival
A tradition based on socializing starts to bring Kansas citians back together
Family, fortune and fracking on the frontier
Thrilling new fairy tales for a contemporary readership
Searching to belong in a world on the brink
Somebody Somewhere revels in quiet regionality on one of tv’s biggest networks
8 stories on intimacy, magic and desire
Snail watching may be the hobby you never knew you needed
The Ides of Dessa.
May’s Place: slow fashion with midwestern boots.
The poetry of Minari
A study of strength, grief and obsession
10 TENDER, FIERCE STORIES THAT GIVE VOICE TO THE LAND
“A place that transcends boundaries, that defies definition, a body that holds within it a multitude of identities.”
“For seven years now the Fire Room has played host to intimate concert experiences for rock, rockabilly, blues, Americana, folk, alt-country and country music.”
Unveiling the human condition through food in El Dorado Freddy’s
What one invasive fish reveals about the challenge of managing nature at huge scales
Slim, lyrical memoir deconstructs our ideas of borders, connectedness and charitable aid.
Music so sunny it may change your outlook.
The first adult novel from Kansas City author Amy Engel
Even migrating birds need to nest. One mother’s reckoning with rootedness.