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Bad Houses is a rich collection, with many of its finest stories playing out in the greater Midwest, grounding fantasy in a regionalism that rings true in its tone and its observation. My encounters with Stintzi’s work had previously been limited to brief pieces...
Each fall, the Tallgrass Film Festival attracts thousands of filmmakers and film enthusiasts from all over the country to Wichita, Kansas. As the largest independent film festival in Kansas, Tallgrass aims to showcase some of the best films in the world while also...
We Midwesterners might be better known for our politeness than our sense of humor, but I like to think we can be pretty funny. Take St. Louis-based Janelle Bassett, author of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize-winning short story collection, Thanks for This...
George Frazier’s Riverine Dreams takes us away
The legacy of Chasing Amy
And other impossible questions in Melissa Faliveno’s debut novel
Challenging notions of rural experience
Desire, Otherness and the 21st-Century Mistress
A year of truly seeing the natural world in This Is How A Robin Drinks
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