A few years back, our regular books and literature columnist Rob Cline reviewed a delightful…
Books and Writers
I am an inveterate Star Trek fan. Whether it’s the original series from the 1960s…
Isaac Hamlet has a story he’s been crafting and recrafting for quite some time. Recently,…
As the calendar turns to November, we enter the darkest portion of the year—the period…
For quite a while now, I’ve devoted this space to conversations with Iowa’s indie authors—the…
This month, I’m sharing some thoughts about a range of books I’ve been reading and…
At age 12, Polo Altynski-Ross took on the daunting task of documenting his family’s dramatic…
Longtime readers of this column know that I write about Lawrence Block and his work…
Dennis Maulsby is a versatile writer hailing from Ames who took up writing as a…
Many of us baby-boomer farm kids recall growing up in the 1950s and ’60s walkin’…
Mary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel is a delight. That’s a sentence I easily could have…
(Our apologies! The April 15 reading listed in the e-newsletter was in 2021!) When Russia…
For many years, Mary Helen Stefaniak has contributed her warm, contemplative, and playful essays to…
As a high school student in Iowa, I was an avid follower of MAD Magazine.…
Admittedly, the idea of a bunch of indie (that is, self-published) authors discussing what they…