When the Skerbeck Carnival stopped in Wakefield for a week each summer, you’d work the food stand to earn some cash, hoping to impress a…
Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews / Nonfiction
A Review of From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney
Chicago author Kathleen Rooney’s fifth novel, From Dust to Stardust, is set in Hollywood’s silent film era. It’s the enchanting story of Doreen O’Dare, a…
These photographs were taken in the summer of 2013 on a camping trip in Bay County, Michigan. The shoreside wildlife was abundant, from the…
Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews / First Friday Series
Slashes and Other Signs of Discordance: Review of Nora Gold’s In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur in a Gym
In 2024, Guernica Editions published two novellas by Nora Gold in one volume. Rather ingeniously, the novellas, In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur…
I’ve learned that Shetek means pelican in Ojibwe, just as I’ve learned that “going to the lake” for many Minnesotans involves a drive north, a…