Short Stories: A Conversation with Kathryn Gahl, Jim Landwehr, and Steve Fox Moderated by Maggie Ginsberg at Books & Company

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Join us at Books & Company to celebrate short stories with authors Kathryn Gahl, Jim Landwehr, and Steve Fox in a panel discussion moderated by author Maggie Ginsberg!

Book signing with all four authors (and their books!) to follow. 
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Kathryn Gahl is the author of The Yellow Toothbrush (2022) and The Velocity of Love (2020), both recipients of Outstanding Achievement Awards from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her fiction has been published in Notre Dame Review, Glimmer Train, Wisconsin People & Ideas, and elsewhere. For her poetry, she was awarded the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2019.

Yes, No, I Don’t Know by Kathryn Gahl:
Award-winning writer Kathryn Gahl brings her careful eye and lyrical detail to the two dozen stories in Yes, No, I Don't Know, a luminous patchwork of Midwestern strivers, lovers, and dreamers in thorny circumstances. A wife finds her husband hanging from a barn beam. A physician receives an unorthodox patient request. A widower opens his wife's dresser drawer and comes undone at the sight of her panties. A teenage boy grapples with reporting his friend's unspeakable act. An inmate tells how to end things. Controlled, tender, and masterful, Gahl weaves despair and hope into a single thread of healing grace.

Jim Landwehr is the author of four memoirs, including At the Lake (Cornerstone Press 2022), and six poetry collections. He is a board member of the Wisconsin Writers Association and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and was the 2018-2019 poet laureate for the Village of Wales, Wisconsin.

All that it Seems by Jim Landwehr:
Senior center residents form their own government during a global pandemic; three forms of artificial intelligence impact folks from Madison, Wisconsin; Tilted Thomas, a man whose spine is tilted to the same degree as the earth's axis, falls in love with Leadfoot Lisa; a gifted guitarist searches for his stolen Fender guitar; and a man feels the moral dilemmas of altering history. Eclectic, relevant, and earnestly human at every turn, Jim Landwehr's stories sparkle with magic and fantasy, hum with technology and history, and celebrate human triumph in troubling times.

Steve Fox is the award-winning author of Sometimes Creek (Cornerstone Press 2023), winner of an American BookFest Best Book Award, finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Edna Ferber Book Award. He is also the recipient of the Rick Bass Montana Prize for Fiction and the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, three sons, and one dog.

These Are My People by Steve Fox:
Award-winning writer Steve Fox returns with These ?Are My People, where some houses are dark, some are bright and smell of busy kitchens, and some have rooms beyond a looking glass. People crash trucks and make snow angels and spill coffee and buy pottery and self-starve and roam basements and day-drink at nursing homes and can smell broken love through brick walls and make apple pies for new neighbors. Whirling and wondrous, these stories show Fox at the peak of his powers.

Maggie Ginsberg is an editor at Madison Magazine and a freelance writer for city, regional, and national magazines. Still True is her debut novel.

Still True by Maggie Ginsberg:
One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son’s existence—or her previous marriage—to her husband, Jack. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion but acceptance of their neighbors), they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib’s long-dormant secret threatens to unravel their lives.