May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 14
Sarah Smarsh Rural Kingman County Murdock, Kansas By Taylor Krueger 🎧 Listen at HPPR During Sarah Smarsh’s childhood, driven by poverty and necessity, she moved frequently between the Kansas prairie and nearby metropolitan Wichita. Born on the precipice of the 1980s...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 13
Niki Smith Rock Springs Ranch Junction City, Kansas By Macy Davis 🎧 Listen at HPPR Niki Smith never names Kansas in The Golden Hour. She doesn’t need to. Every page of the 2021 graphic novel shows Kansas. It starts with the cover, which looks through wheat in the...
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...
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...
