Festival goers, the time is upon us! The moment you have been waiting for is only a short few days away. Our festival, UntitledTown—if you haven’t heard—is here! Beginning Thursday, April 25th and running through Sunday, April 28th, downtown Green Bay will be filled with events for readers and writers alike. We have some schedule changes to announce. From a Festival Organizer’s perspective, we’re pleased to see your enthusiasm, but we’re sorry we can’t accommodate everyone who is interested in… [Read More]
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#BookTalk: Montaigne in Barn Boots, Michael Perry
Montaigne in Barn Boots: A Decidedly Green Bay Story by Jennie Young A few months ago, I found a “could not deliver” slip in my mailbox; someone had sent me a package that required me to go to the post office to obtain. My curiosity piqued (A secret admirer?! Have I won something?!), I drove to the post office to get it and found that it was C.O.D., which I didn’t even realize was a thing anymore because I… [Read More]
#BookTalk: The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
by Grant Cousineau “I was foolish enough to believe that I could take his money and keep my freedom.” The Man in My Basement is rife with this concept of self-salvation, that we can somehow map our own paths to redemption whether we deserve it or not. But before Mosely’s provocative novel really digs into this idea, his story opens with a straightforward proposition. Anniston Bennet – an unassuming, wealthy, white man – appears on the doorstep of… [Read More]
UntitledTown for the Smallies (and Their Grown-Ups)
by Tara DaPra There are many things I love about UntitledTown Book & Author Festival, now in its third year. There are the small pleasures, like having an excuse to explore both sides of downtown Green Bay on foot, and there are the biggies, like being the center of the cultural universe for a brief moment when Margaret Atwood’s keynote coincided with A Handmaid’s Tale Hulu debut. But what I might love most of all is that this is… [Read More]
#BookTalk: Little Faith by Nickolas Butler
by Grant Cousineau “…it was adults of course who introduced danger into the world, always adults.” Nickolas Butler’s latest novel was inspired by the Kara Neumann case of Weston, WI, where a pair of Pentecostal parents refused medical treatment for their diabetic daughter and instead attempted to cure her through prayer. Kara died in 2008, and her parents were convicted of second-degree reckless homicide. Little Faith explores this dangerous territory: the boundaries between faith and the limits of an… [Read More]