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David W. Berner's latest book is about a song he wrote for his children and his journey to perform it for the first time in public.Berner's composition, a…
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A Fine Line is a novel featuring Sebastian Drake, a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune.A Fine Line is also the name of Drake's novel, which features…
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On her "Medicare Birthday," author Marnie O. Mamminga celebrated by swimming to an island in Big Spider Lake near Hayward, Wis.No easy feat for a…
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Pick up The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id, and you might guess it involves psychology with words like "paracosm" and "Id."…
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"Every human being is an archeological site. What passes for roots is actually a matter of sediment, of accretion, of chance and juxtaposition."This…
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Wisconsin Village At Epicenter Of Presidential Campaign, Gay Marriage DebateThis could be the headline of a Leo Townsend article about the conflict in his…
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Mike Doyle wasn't in Belvidere on April 21, 1967. The Rockford native was a freshman at UW-Whitewater when an F4 tornado ripped through Boone County.But…
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When Christine Sneed begins a story, she never knows where her characters will take it."Usually I'm about halfway through and I still won't know what's…
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"You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl."We've all heard this, which is why it's refreshing to find a story…
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In a story about an alcoholic teen and the twin brother who covers for her, who's the protagonist?"I have people come up to me and, in some cases, they…