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Justin Kern
The Milwaukee Anthology
9781948742382
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A collection of essays, art, stories, and poetry that offer a nuanced portrait of Milwaukee in all its hope and hurt, weirdness and wonder.
The Milwaukee Anthology presents a rich mosaic of one of America’s toughest zip codes. With a diverse range of perspectives, authors and artists share honest first-hand stories about Riverwest, Sherman Park, Hmong New Year’s shows, 7 Mile Fair, the Rolling Mill commemoration, and much more.
Edited by Justin Kern, and with more than fifty contributors including Dasha Kelly, Pardeep Kaleka, and Michael Perry, this collection includes stories about:
The Milwaukee Anthology presents a rich mosaic of one of America’s toughest zip codes. With a diverse range of perspectives, authors and artists share honest first-hand stories about Riverwest, Sherman Park, Hmong New Year’s shows, 7 Mile Fair, the Rolling Mill commemoration, and much more.
Edited by Justin Kern, and with more than fifty contributors including Dasha Kelly, Pardeep Kaleka, and Michael Perry, this collection includes stories about:
- Redlining in the city
- Painting a community mural in Sherman Park
- Reflections after the Oak Creek Sikh Temple Shooting
- The city’s upstart microbrewing industry
- The rise of Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks
Glenway Wescott
Goodbye, Wisconsin
9781540270313
Regular price $20.00 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A collection of stories, originally published in 1928, from the author of The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk.
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A couple set fire to an old farmhouse to collect insurance money. A groom contemplates an old sexual escapade while he waits for his bride at the altar. A young farm boy returns to tell his brother about his capers while stationed in France in the Navy. The eleven stories in this collection, including an introductory essay by Wescott on returning to his parents’ West Allis home outside Milwaukee, deal with themes of exile—often self-imposed—and return.
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This Belt Revivals edition features a new introduction by Patrick Nathan.Â
