For news about books by authors from our state and about our state, the Milwaukee paper served a banquet, “Good Words for All” in it’s features/lifestyle section.
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/books/85-summer-book-recommendations-b9912223z1-208846951.html
Included in the mix were:
- Milwaukee native Jim Gaffigan will be talking about and signing copies of his book Dad is Fat at Boswell Book Company on June 15 at 7 p.m.
- Kenosha resident Michael Schumacher collaborated with comics guru Denis Kitchen on Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary a biography of “Li’l Abner” comic strip creator Al Capp.
- Milwaukee newspaper staffer Dave Heller wrote Facing Ted Williams
- Milwaukee sports writer Tom Haudricourt published 100 Things Brewers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
Of special interest might be the 8 Books by Wisconsin Writers section. That list included:
- American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith edited by Daniel Okrent
- Racine novelist Bradley P. Beaulieu’s The Flames of Shadam Khoreh,the third book of his fantasy trilogy
- Barbara Manger and Janine Smith’s biography, Mary Nohl: A Lifetime in Art
- Huston native Amy Timberlake’s One Came Home
- Milwaukee art dealer and art critic Dean Jensen’s Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
- Andrea Lochen’s The Repeat Year: A Novel
- Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation
- Mount Horeb resident Alex Bledsoe’s A Wisp of a Thing
There was even mention of a Wisconsin publisher: Eureka Productions in Mount Horeb
Drift author David Rhodes and his Jewelweed got their own separate story in the same section of the paper. http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/books/beauty-and-healing-blossom-in-rhodes-jewelweed-b9910222z1-208823371.html He’ll be at Boswell Book Company on June 6 at 7 p.m.
Please visit the CWW website at www.wiswriters.org.