By Rob Cline, correspondent ‘Fathers, Sons, and the Holy Ghosts of Baseball” is a well-executed story of boys, old men, …
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By Rob Cline, correspondent ‘Fathers, Sons, and the Holy Ghosts of Baseball” is a well-executed story of boys, old men, …
Tommy Murray tells the story of a pivotal baseball season in the life of a small Iowa town in ‘Fathers, …
Kevin Patrick has turned his youthful enthusiasm into a scholarly endeavor. Patrick, author of ‘The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero,” …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Kevin Patrick is an independent media studies scholar, and much of his work has been focused …
When the tourists leave town, when the sun fades for the winter, that’s when author Alannah Hopkin gets to work. …
n a recent trip to another City of Literature – Reykjavik, Iceland – I learned about their Jolabokafloo or ‘Yule …
The novel ‘Faith Fox” by acclaimed British writer Jane Gardam is a brilliant holiday story of one eccentric family coming …
By Rob Cline, correspondent ‘From a Distance,” the new novel by Iowa City author Larry Baker, is a book filled …
Larry Baker writes about memorable characters, and he is something of a character himself. Baker earned his doctorate at the …
Reza Aslan is many things – an academic scholar of religions; a professor of creative writing; a TV producer; a …
December 6 marks the 100th anniversary of a catastrophic explosion in the harbor adjacent to the city of Halifax, Nova …
While most of us were taught not to discuss religion in polite company, travel writer Lori Erickson wonders: what happens …
Sets of prose poems beginning ‘Instead of dying,” frame Lauren Haldeman’s collection, which takes its title from these opening words. …
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