Plainsongs' title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains, but also its preference for...
Plainsongs' title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains, but also its preference for...
During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the 'backcountry,' or the ...
The brilliant and sinister Martin writes a novel from the perspective of a murderer-and if you re...
Ring W. Lardner's 1921 satirical collection The Big Town follows nouveau riche Midwestern couple ...
Raised just outside Cincinnati, in the rural community of Rossmoyne, Ohio, Aaron Belford Thompson...
Insanity. Promiscuity. Incest. Murder. Abuse. The small town of Kings Row has many dark secrets. ...
Part artistic memoir and part academic memoir, Letters to an Aspiring Scholar is an invaluable so...
Lizzie Holmes's 1893 novel Hagar Lyndon was way ahead of its time. Radical, even. The novel tells...
The Triumph of the Egg, Sherwood Anderson's 1921 collection of poems and short stories, focuses o...
Ernst Weiman is a resourceful German immigrant who lives the American Dream by becoming a success...
Amarilly Jenkins may be a scrub-girl, but she has ambitions. Through hard work, determination, an...