The following is an excerpt from Irish writer Maura McElhone’s book Falling for a Farmer (2018), published by Mercier Press. * It...
After an incredible response from writers that resulted in a large collection of talented work, judge Gráinne Murphy took on...
His hands, held close to his chest, are formed into fists, in which he clutches lumps of grass, as if...
There’s a certain point you get to, in middle age or thereabouts, where you start asking yourself questions about times...
“It’s not something we have to create, it’s something we already have. We have to teach people why blue tarps...
“Memory is non-linear by default!” I scrawled this on the back of a grocery receipt in April of this strange...
Sometimes I feel like I’m a member of the last well-mannered generation—that is, the last generation to know swift discipline....
The July afternoon suspends thick, golden haze drifting from the wildfires out west. I heft a 50-pound bag of cattle...
It was the fourth of July weekend and Doug Edwards and Josh Adkins from Franklin Illinois had set up a...
The primary reason Omanson had hitchhiked out from Illinois to the northwest coast in November of 1973 was to find...
In 1893 the city of Chicago celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival with the World’s Columbian Exposition. I have...
Mail frauds, April Fools, and ‘Jaws’ in the toilet An excerpt from Jim Trelease’s family memoir, Looking Backward, used by...