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Add these titles to your reading list — 8 books by Hoosiers win Indiana Authors Awards
If you’re looking for a new book — or several — to read, look no further. The votes are in, and eight winners of the 2022 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards have been chosen. The Indiana Authors Awards happen every two years, which allows the winners to tour and connect with readers, students and teachers statewide between announcements. The awards were established in 2009 by Glick Philanthropies, with The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.
The Unvarnished Truth
“Split the wood, and I am there.” THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS at Dr. Iske’s were glittering this year, as if there were a rapidly repeating short in the wires. They were multicolored lights that outlined the roof and bathed the small trees and white lights on the shrubs, and there were so many strands that, while tasteful, the light called attention to the house. There were more lights in the back of the house than in the front so Mrs.
Issue 110 - Image Journal
The Way of the Critic: To Judge Is to Love By James K. A. Smith Editorial Statement | Issue 110 Good criticism also helps us see why some art doesn’t work, or works poorly, activating the worst in us. When criticism is judgmental in the sense of being censorious, that too is in the service of art and our experience. The critic is showing us why we need and deserve better.
The Rope Bridge
Early one morning, two weeks ago, we woke up to find a bridge above the river where one hadn’t been before. It was made of intricate knotted rope, like a macramé hammock. Who or whatever placed it there must have worked on it for years in secret and brought it out and fastened it (to what?) in the middle of the night.
THE TOWN OF WHISPERING DOLLS
by Kiley Reid ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 The relationship between a privileged white mom and her black babysitter is strained by race-related complications. Blogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster.
THE PLUME by Susan Neville
From the outside, the Garden City Church of Christ looks like any small rural church. The building is just large enough for a sanctuary, a small vestibule where the greeters stand, an office in the back, and a basement where the choir practices and where Sunday school classes and church dinners are held. Four steps lead to the front door, the exterior paint is mildewed, the steeple seems tacked on.
Susan Neville: “Hunger”
Susan Neville’s short story “Hunger,” about a woman struggling subconsciously with loss, appeared in TMR 40.4 (Winter 2017). In a recent interview with the Missouri Review, she talks about her experiences writing this piece, as well as her work in different genres and the current writing climate. Hunger by Susan Neville I’m driving down the street and I have an overwhelming urge to take a bite out of my steering wheel, so I do.
Light - Image Journal
IN LATE OCTOBER I started painting the trim around the outside of the windows white. I finished the east and south sides of the house and moved my ladder to the west. The red leaves were falling from the sugar maple and the buckeyes from the buckeye tree, and the squirrels were making their strangely chaotic and impossible nests high up in a pin oak.
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