by Lori Helke The 2018 UntitledTown Book Fair will take place from 11 am- 5 pm on Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22, at the Broadway Center (Old Fort Square). Not only will there be many 30-minute author signings (view the schedule here and don’t forget to check back often for some surprise announcements!), festival merchandise and books available for purchase, but also there will be an abundance of vendors to visit, chat, and purchase great books from! The Book… [Read More]
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Light in Winter – An Interview with Peter Geye
by Nick Reilly Peter Geye is a novelist from Minneapolis, where he still lives and teaches. He is the author of three acclaimed novels concerning a fictionalized northern Minnesota town called Gunflint, the most recent being Wintering. Wintering is about a father and son surviving a winter on Minnesota’s North Shore. The novel was just awarded the 2017 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. Mr. Geye was kind enough to answer a few questions for UntitledTown blogger Nick Reilly. UntitledTown: What… [Read More]
“Palominos Near Tuba City”: Observations from a Poet of Protest
by Grant Cousineau “I chase poems down like wild mares into fenced corrals…the horses of white lightning gallop toward me; / afraid of nothing, they rush with an eye of hesitation / ready to brush up against my heart with their horse madness. …I stand my ground and wait, ready to hold on for dear life.” It’s been sixteen years since Denise Sweet’s released her last book, a generation through which she’s served a four-year tenure as Wisconsin’s Poet Laureate,… [Read More]
Every Kid Can Change the World: An Interview with Katie Eder
by Danielle Tackett Katie Eder is an 18-year old entrepreneur who founded the nonprofit organization, Kids Tales, which brings summer creative writing workshops to 8 to 12-year-old kids around the globe who do not have access to writing experiences outside of school. Almost 1200 kids across twelve U.S. cities and eight countries have participated in Kids Tales, and the organization has engaged over 300 teen teachers. Since Kids Tales was founded in 2013, they have published 65 anthologies written by… [Read More]
The 1950s Called. They Want Your Uterus Back: “Nasty Women” Talk Back
by Jennie Young “Black women tried to save you, America. You didn’t want to be saved.” So begins Zerlina Maxwell’s essay titled “Trust Black Women” in the book Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America. The edited collection was inspired, of course, by Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman,” an epithet that, ironically, became a rallying cry for women across the nation. Women everywhere appropriated it eagerly, donning “Nasty Woman” t-shirts, drinking our coffee out of… [Read More]