“It’s always a matter, isn’t it, of waiting for the world to come unraveled? When things hold together, it’s always temporary.” by Grant Cousineau In the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic exploded. Then it fell from the public’s awareness until 1998 with The Berlin Patient. Timothy Ray Brown was diagnosed with HIV, and through a stem cell transplant was declared cured by 2008. However, the transplant was considered risky, potentially fatal, and therefore never replicated. News about a cure… [Read More]
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UntitledTown Full Schedule Released, Featuring 118 Events
GREEN BAY, WI— All but one of UntitledTown Book and Author Festival’s 118 events are free and open to the public. The Festival takes place in several downtown Green Bay venues on April 25-28, 2019. Trolleys will provide transportation. New and Notable in 2019 New to the Festival this year are multiple, free writing workshops for specific populations in the Brown County region, including Writing for Retirees and Writing with Faith. Veterans of all eras are invited to participate in several free “Writing… [Read More]
#CelebratingDiversity – The LGBT Guide to UntitledTown
Did you know that April is LGBT Awareness Month (sometimes referred to as GAYpril)? College campuses all across the nation take this month to create programming that helps to create visibility and awareness of LGBT people, as well as to foster community. In honor of this endeavor, UntitedTown would like to let you know about events that are either related to LGBT topics or are presented by LGBT individuals. Saturday, April 27 We Need Diverse Books with Catherine Lundoff,… [Read More]
The Introvert’s Guide to UntitledTown
by Ami Maxine Irmen There is a joke that introverts make great writers because it gives us a chance to tell stories without having to make eye contact. Joking or not, it’s true. And I am never more aware of this than when I attend writer/reader conferences/festivals…and I attempt to network. [shudders] As excited as we may get to be surrounded by fellow writers, listen to authors read their work, and get our books signed, even the most… [Read More]
UntitledTown #BeginnersGuide to Susan Orlean
Orlean is the product of a happy and relatively uneventful childhood in Cleveland, Ohio. After college, Orlean moved to Portland, Oregon, with the intent to study law – but stumbled instead into a writing job (and found herself on the path she had always wanted). Orlean is the author of The Orchid Thief, which was the basis for the movie Adaptation staring Meryl Streep. Orlean began contributing to The New Yorker in 1987, becoming a staff writer in 1992. She… [Read More]