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Andy Oler, "Lingering Island"
Featured Book
Lingering Island: A Literary Tour of the Midwest
A singular collection of creative nonfiction, Lingering Inland plumbs the personal and collective essence that binds Midwesterners together through words and places. This expansive anthology collects 73 original short essays by a diverse array of contemporary writers. Each explores locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary figures and canonical authors such as Toni Morrison and Willa Cather.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
The Book Cellar will be hosting a reading of Lingering Island: A Literary Tour of the Midwest. Editor Andy Oler and Chicago contributors will read from and discuss the book. A Q&A and book signing to follow.
Featured Author
Andy Oler
Andy Oler is the author of Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature and coeditor of Michigan Salvage: Approaches to the Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell. He is chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and departments editor at The New Territory.
About the Venue
The Book Cellar
What could be a better combination than books, wine by the glass, and cozy couches? Browse for the books you love to read at The Book Cellar in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood, an independent bookstore featuring books by first-time authors, local authors, and more. The Book Cellar welcomes book clubs and discussion groups.
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