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Heartlands Best Reads of 2017:#1 Lincoln in the Bardo (& a recap)
There are certain things you know you’re going to find when you sit down to read a George Saunders story. It will be weird, funny, engaging, and surprisingly deep. I expected no less from Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders’ first novel and I was not disappointed. The book, which won the Man Booker Prize this year,… →
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Heartlands Best Reads of 2017: #10 Strangers In Their Own Land
It’s been a great year for reading. I credit Sarah Willson Craig for inviting me into a real mid-life reading renaissance. She’s the one who posted the Better World Reading Challenge on Facebook in 2016 and got a group of friends committed. I’m grateful. Since everyone else is doing their end-of-the-year list, I decided to… →
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Why Books Will Win
I’m making a wager that books will lead us to the future. Heartlands came about as a desire to understand the present age, particularly from the perspective of rural America and rural church ministry. In the beginning I was trying to figure out why the place where I live seemed suddenly so strange to me. … →
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“My Pleasure” – New story by Alix Hawley
Recent interviewee, Alix Hawley, has a great new story out in The Walrus. Wistful and wonderful. →
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Ghosts and Land – My interview with Alix Hawley continues – part 2 of 2
In the first part of my interview with author Alix Hawley, we talked Daniel Boone, pop culture, and the challenges of writing your way into the mind of a legend. In this post, my interview with the author of All True Not a Lie in It concludes… You handle the Shawnee culture with a great deal… →
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Alex talks to Alix – an interview with author Alix Hawley – part 1 of 2
Alix Hawley is the author of All True Not a Lie in It (recently reviewed here), a creative re-visiting of the pioneer and American cultural touchstone Daniel Boone. Hawley teaches at Okanagan College in Kelowna, British Columbia and this debut novel has won her the Amazon.ca First Novel Award along with a lot of acclaim. Always… →
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Re-wilding the Land – a Review of Alix Hawley’s All True Not a Lie in It
All True Not a Lie in It. Ha! Daniel Boone is one of the most picked-over commodities in pioneer pop culture, (though admittedly he hasn’t had a major spike in interest since Fess Parker’s TV Boone had ‘60s kids sporting coon-skin caps). If there’s a truth left below the varnish of 250 years of… →
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