Published May 16, 2013
Jenny Benjamin talks to OnMilwaukee.com about her debut novel, "This Most Amazing," which tells the story of a Milwaukee poet who has a strange connection to a long-dead Italian soldier.
Published May 13, 2013
The Milwaukee Public Library kicks off their annual Super Reader Summer Reading Program today. The program encourages children to read or be read to every day during the summer, while tracking reading progress in a folder and earning incentives like free food and free admission to Milwaukee attractions.
Published May 8, 2013
Not everything is check-out-able at libraries, a fact made clear to us during a recent visit to the Special Collections at the UWM Golda Meir Library where we encountered all sorts of unconventional materials from 15th century volumes to invisible books.
Published May 7, 2013
Wisconsin author Andrea Lochen's debut novel, "The Repeat Year," comes out today and explores an interesting question: if you wrong someone in a year that you had lived through but seems to exist for no one else, did it really happen?
Published May 6, 2013
Milwaukee native Paul McComas recently teamed with longtime friend Greg Starrett to produce the "Fit for a Frankenstein," a lighthearted tribute to everyone's favorite assistant, Ygor.
Published March 4, 2013
Novels like Jenny Milchman's "Cover of Snow" prove that there's still no better way to pass an afternoon than lying on your couch, elbows-deep in a good mystery story.
Published March 3, 2013
Milwaukee writer Louisa Loveridge Gallas' "Rescue the Good Stuff" is the story of Madeleine Kidd, an insightful, spunky 11-year-old who is the only child of a con-man father and a frustrated, disappointed-with-life mother. OnMiwaukee.com recently chatted with Gallas about the book and more.
Published Feb. 23, 2013
Bookworms, TV junkies, history buffs and sports lovers will all want to see what OnMilwaukee.com recommends this week.
Published Feb. 8, 2013
Jamie Vacho Knisbeck hadn't written a book before, so she was surprised when the idea for a children's story came to her while journaling in her garden several years ago. It was only through a friend of a friend that she met illustrator Charlie Christman and her idea came to life. A year and a half later, "Ivy Grace and the Birthday Monster" was born.
Published Feb. 5, 2013
I'm using my own book as an example in this posting, but so you don't think it's merely for shameless self-promotion, I won't use the title. But, seeing copies of the book for sale online has me wondering how this online used bookselling game works.
Published Jan. 10, 2013
His book may be about Chicago, but its stories translate well to Brew City, too. Scott Jacobs, author of "Never Leave Your Block: Adventures in Urban Living" is coming to Milwaukee to talk about them on Saturday, Jan. 12.
Published Dec. 15, 2012
Patrick McGilligan wrote "Alfred Hitchcock: Life in Darkness and Light" in 2003 and currently teaches a class at Marquette University on the famed auteur. I sat down with the local author to discuss "Hitchcock" and to differentiate between Hitchcock facts and Hollywood fabrications.
Published Dec. 2, 2012
Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Don Beebe, a member of the 1996 Super Bowl championship, recently released his biography entitled "Six Rings from Nowhere."
Published Oct. 25, 2012
Gemma Tarlach has produced a brilliant debut novel chronicling a medieval executioner's struggle to find his runaway daughter as the Black Plague ravages the German countryside.
Published July 29, 2012
"I know who killed the Schumacher boy." Wauwatosa native Paul Hoffman, a journalist now based in Indiana grew up hearing that from his elderly neighbor Lillian Harwood. Decades later, that line resulted in Hoffman's new book, "Murder in Wauwatosa: The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher," published in paperback by The History Press.
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