By Kenyon Gradert News broke of Phil Robertson’s remarks a few days before my wife and I left for my parents’ Iowa farm. Both of us teachers, we…
Photograph by Robert Josiah Bingaman; via fly over art tumblr This morning from 11 to noon Central Time, Kenyon Gradert will appear on the NPR program Saint Louis…
Perhaps we’re witnessing a shift back to the region’s realist origins. More likely, the Midwest is blooming into a wide proliferation of literary style. …
Tragic Prelude; John Steuart Curry By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture series Editor The Midwest—half of its name ringing with the romantic potential of the frontier—has long…
Tragic Prelude; John Steuart Curry By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture series Editor The Midwest—half of its name ringing with the romantic potential of the frontier—has long…
Ohio State preseason open practice, 2012; Ohio StateBuckeyes.com By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture series Editor I was at a party filled with English PhD students and…
By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture Series Editor “Behind the high-flying legend lies a true-to-life saga every bit as compelling, one that begins not in the…
Airborne, 2010; Alex Roulette as seen in fly over art By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture Series EditorA quality course begins with quality secondary sources. Such quotidian…
Photograph from the insert to the Bruce Springsteen & E-Street Band Live 1975-1985 LP box set By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture editor Last week in the…
By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture series Editor Perhaps tied with Jules Verne and J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury may be my longest-running literary friend. His leatherbound anthology…
