Wisconsin State Journal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Oftentimes it seems that writing a book — or in Milton author Evie Yoder Miller’s case, a trilogy with individual titles of “Shadows,” “Loyalties” and “Passages” — would be challenging https://t.co/nCptWgfTLa

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Mary Alice Hostetter’s book “Plain: A Memoir of a Mennonite Girlhood,” published earlier this month by UW Press, depicts the challenges and successes of everyday life of a young Mennonite https://t.co/dXyslnQd0c

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Wisconsin author Jamie Pacton loves nothing better than taking some nugget of history and incorporating it into her novels. This is certainly the case with her latest, “The Vermilion Emporium,” https://t.co/tCvmjh7VcE

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Wisconsin author Steve Fox’s short story “Sometimes Creek” recently earned the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction through the Wisconsin Writers Awards through Art Lit Lab. His collection of short https://t.co/12D0vCsyce

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Indiana-based author Ross Gay, touches on everything from basketball to fruit trees to skateboarding to cover songs in his collection of essays “Inciting Joy,” published Oct. 25. The book, written https://t.co/rGNdTegzil

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Loretta Lynn, the "Coal Miner's Daughter" whose frank songs about Appalachian womanhood made her a pillar of country music, has died at age 90. https://t.co/C9ZOzMl1ee

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A couple of years ago, Madison resident Brooke Saucier dusted off a children’s book he’d written and kept on a thumb drive for 17 years. “The Isle of Stuck Faces” https://t.co/aQstSOH372

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On this episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast, we are joined by Michael Shermer from Skeptic Magazine to discuss the rise of conspiracy theories in America. https://t.co/bC0ys4tblC

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Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy protection as he faces nearly $1.5 billion in court judgments over conspiracy theories. https://t.co/6SvqGxpRbN

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Wisconsin educator and author Ben Hubing found several similarities in today’s society and that of the 1960s and ‘70s when researching his book “George Wallace in Wisconsin: The Divisive Campaigns https://t.co/CHiqeXyTsP