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The #Midwessay: Kelcey Parker Ervick, Mystery River
I think one of the things that I first came to love about Indiana, and particularly about Muncie, was its contradictions. It doesn’t quite know who or what it is, and so it’s a little bit of everything...
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The #Midwessay: Freesia McKee, Here
I think one of the things that I first came to love about Indiana, and particularly about Muncie, was its contradictions. It doesn’t quite know who or what it is, and so it’s a little bit of everything...
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The #Midwessay: Andrew Cartright, Rajpreet Heir, and Robbie Maakestad, The...
I think one of the things that I first came to love about Indiana, and particularly about Muncie, was its contradictions. It doesn’t quite know who or what it is, and so it’s a little bit of everything...
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The #Midwessay: Chris Cokinos, Born There
I think one of the things that I first came to love about Indiana, and particularly about Muncie, was its contradictions. It doesn’t quite know who or what it is, and so it’s a little bit of everything...
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The #Midwessay: Michael Martone, The Mild, Mild-West
I think one of the things that I first came to love about Indiana, and particularly about Muncie, was its contradictions. It doesn’t quite know who or what it is, and so it’s a little bit of everything...
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The #Midwessay: Andy Oler, When I Am Gone, Who'll Sing for Me
I think one of the things that I first came to love about Indiana, and particularly about Muncie, was its contradictions. It doesn’t quite know who or what it is, and so it’s a little bit of...
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The #Midwessay: Karen Babine, Paul Gruchow and the Minnesota #Midwessay
Paul Gruchow and the Minnesota MidwessayKaren Babine*When I was a sophomore in college, I took Dr. Kopperud’s class in Minnesota Writers, and was genuinely shocked to realize writers came from...
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The #Midwessay: Kao Kalia Yang, Thoughts on the Midwest
Thoughts on the MidwestKao Kalia Yang*The older men and women wear long sleeves, even in the summertime, particularly when they work underneath the sweltering Minnesota sun on the edges of the...
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The #Midwessay: Mark Ehling, Reflections on a Plague Year
Reflections on a Plague Year(or: How Some Midwesterners Talk About Death)Mark Ehling*Mark Ehling is a writer and artist living in Edina, Minnesota. His most recent project is the Minneapolis Mail...
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The #Midwessay: Keith Pille, Memo from the Cultural Geography Desk
Memo from the Cultural Geography DeskKeith Pille*So we’re hashing out what exactly the boundaries of a Midwestern Essay are. I’ve had an essay, a Midwestern one, trying to form in my head for a while...
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The #Midwessay: Frank Bures, What the Midwest Means
What the Midwest MeansFrank Bures*For years I’ve felt ambivalent about living in the Midwest—neither proud nor embarrassed. This is not about the place. I live in Minneapolis, with its writers and...
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The #Midwessay: Kevin Finley, The Unmatched Beauty of the Place Called Home
The Unmatched Beauty of the Place Called HomeKevin Finley* As kids, my lifelong friends and I would peddle past rows of modest two-story homes as we made our way to the river. Coloring Saint Paul’s...
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The #Midwessay: Dev Murphy, There is Something Sinister about the Land I...
There's one story that I keep returning to, over and over, writing and rewriting, turning it and tilting it this way and that so I can examine it from every possible angle. It's this story of growing...
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The #Midwessay: Deanne Stillman, Ohio Girl: How I Traveled the N.Y.–L.A....
There's one story that I keep returning to, over and over, writing and rewriting, turning it and tilting it this way and that so I can examine it from every possible angle. It's this story of growing...
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The #Midwessay: Ashley Bethard, The Cycle of History (and What We Leave Out)
There's one story that I keep returning to, over and over, writing and rewriting, turning it and tilting it this way and that so I can examine it from every possible angle. It's this story of growing...
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The #Midwessay: Brandon North, Unbelonging in the Midwest
There's one story that I keep returning to, over and over, writing and rewriting, turning it and tilting it this way and that so I can examine it from every possible angle. It's this story of growing...
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The #Midwessay: Morgan Riedl, Midwessay/Ohio
There's one story that I keep returning to, over and over, writing and rewriting, turning it and tilting it this way and that so I can examine it from every possible angle. It's this story of growing...
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The #Midwessay: Kris Harrington, Getting Up That Hill
There's one story that I keep returning to, over and over, writing and rewriting, turning it and tilting it this way and that so I can examine it from every possible angle. It's this story of growing...
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The #Midwessay: Beeda Speis, The Pollyanna of Ohio
There's one story that I keep returning to, over and over, writing and rewriting, turning it and tilting it this way and that so I can examine it from every possible angle. It's this story of growing...
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The #Midwessay: Joshua T. Anderson, Loomings from the Deep North
Winter. Bone deep cold. Oil. Wind. Fargo (you can still pose with the woodchipper from the movie at the Fargo Visitors Center). These are some of the first concepts that usually come to mind when...
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