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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Sharon Ricklin Jones grew up here in Milwaukee. As a member of Romance Writers of America, Sharon has just published Vol 1 of Ravenswynd Legends, a four volume romance vampire story like never written before. Once in a decade or two an author enlightens their readers and takes them on an astonish...
Sunday February 10th, 2013 – Lake County, IL I’ve been dipping my toe in the water with the antiques picking game, and I think I’m going to do pretty well for several reasons. I’ve been looking for another source of income that’s flexible, and I think...
I wanted my Milwaukee family to know about a new market starting Sunday, October 21 from 9am-4pm. Would greatly appreciate a good turnout. There are some amazing items for sale quality artwork, including some of Wisconsin's best. Tons of jewelry, art glass, pottery, military items, collectables a...
Friday July 29th, 2011 - Cary, IL/Fox Lake, IL More running around today, but I have to catch up with all the things I’ve fallen behind on in the last month. Even though I took time off, my bills didn’t. I’m going to have to be extra thrifty in the next little while ...
Thursday October 28th, 2010 - Miami, FL No rest for the weary. After that monster day of travel from Honduras to Chicago, I only had one day in town before having to head right back out to sea. I had no time for goofing around, as I had to drop off dry cleaning, do a major load of lau...