Hoofprints By Amy Wright Vollmar Deer strike through brush beneath green briars, cross fallen boughs without trying to rearrange the forest’s stones or trim the grapevines to their will, but still they know just how to bind the prairie to the creek, twist the bluestem into sumac. These are the ways of the white-tailed deer, who show me … [Read more...] about Poetry 2021: Amy Wright Vollmar
1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County Seceded from Missouri. By Dwight W. Pogue Click link below. Doc21 … [Read more...] about New Book Announcement
Scattered Lights. By Steve Wiegenstein. (Cornerpost Press 2020 Pp. 164) Reviewed by Craig Albin We have all seen them. Approaching a small town by night, we notice first the lights that spangle homes and businesses, and perhaps we project upon their luster the safety and comforts of community, the consoling promise of an outpost in the darkness. Yet in the new story … [Read more...] about Book Review: Scattered Lights
Awards and Nominations Steve Wiegenstein's short story collection, Scattered Lights, has been longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Steve Wiegenstein's short story "Magic Kids," first published in Elder Mountain and now collected in Scattered Lights, received an honorable mention in the Mary Mackey Short Story Prize contest, sponsored by the National League of American … [Read more...] about Awards and Nominations
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America. By Bill Geist. (Grand Central Publishing, 2019, Pp. 208). Reviewed by Thomas A. Peters This is a very funny book, but also unsettling in several ways. As I read, I wondered if the world needs yet another memoir about the aching youth of a semi-privileged white male in America in the mid-twentieth century. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Lake of the Ozarks, My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America