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Excerpt: From Ottessa Moshfegh's 'A Better Place'

October 28, 2017 - 8:00am

Editor's Note: Below is an excerpt from "A Better Place," a short story by Ottessa Moshfegh. The story was published as part of the collection, ""Homesick For Another World." This excerpt comes courtesy Penguin Press. I come from some other place. It’s not like a real place on Earth or...

Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart

October 2, 2017 - 12:30pm

Monday, October 2 through Friday, October 27, 2017. Read by Michele Good A lively novel about a forgotten woman, Constance Kopp. She was one of very first female deputy sheriffs. (Houghton Mifflin; ISBN-10: 0544409914 ) / ISBN-13: 978-0544409613) Theme: Charleston Rag from Memories Of You, Eubie Blake

Short Story Author's Partial Glossary To The Future

September 28, 2017 - 12:55pm

Alexander Weinstein talks with Doug Gordon for "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" about how he believes these futuristic technology or actions are more closely rooted in today than we might realize at first glance.

Being Defined By Your Greatest Failure

September 26, 2017 - 6:00am

Chuck Klosterman makes a case for why someone's bad ideas say more about their personality than any of the successes they've had in life.

Apples: A Simple Fruit With A Complex Backstory

September 21, 2017 - 2:00pm

Fall in Wisconsin means turning leaves, cool nights and apple trees spangled with fruit. Author and apple enthusiast Susan Futrell says we take apples for granted. But we shouldn't.

Writer Jeanette Walls Is Caught Between Bohemia And High Society In 'The Glass Castle'

September 8, 2017 - 5:00pm

It's a rite of passage to find our parents embarrassing, particularly as we start to carve out distinct identities in those early years away from home. For Jeannette Walls, the moment was a bit more extreme.

The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

September 4, 2017 - 12:30pm

Monday, September 4 through Friday, September 29, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming. The author of “The Sherlockian” and “The Imitation Game” takes on Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla among others in their battle to bring electricity to the modern world of the Nineteenth Century. (Random House; ISBN-10: 0812988906...

How 'Monster Dogs' Novel Can Help Us Rethink Our Relationships With Canines

August 15, 2017 - 2:00pm

The novel, "Lives of the Monster Dogs," tells the tale of a race of biomechanically enhanced, hyper-intelligent dogs created by a Prussian mad scientist. Kirsten Bakis wrote the story 20 years ago, and it’s been a cult favorite ever since.

Appleton Raised, Pulitzer Winner Edna Ferber Born This Week In 1885

August 14, 2017 - 10:05am

Called "the greatest American woman novelist of her day," Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and playwright Edna Ferber was born this week in 1885.

A Memory of Muskets by Kathleen Ernst

August 7, 2017 - 12:30pm

Monday, August 7 through Friday, September 1, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming. As curator Chloe Ellefson begins work on a Civil War reenactment at Old World Wisconsin in Waukesha County, a man is found dead near one of the German farms. Past and present intermingle as always at a historical...

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Excerpt: From Ottessa Moshfegh's 'A Better Place'

Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart

Short Story Author's Partial Glossary To The Future

Being Defined By Your Greatest Failure

Apples: A Simple Fruit With A Complex Backstory

Writer Jeanette Walls Is Caught Between Bohemia And High Society In 'The Glass Castle'

The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

How 'Monster Dogs' Novel Can Help Us Rethink Our Relationships With Canines

Appleton Raised, Pulitzer Winner Edna Ferber Born This Week In 1885

A Memory of Muskets by Kathleen Ernst

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