Matt Kliewer
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- Sep 30, 2026
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2026 Fall Read: In the Face of Nature’s Chaos (opens the original)
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In the Face of Nature’s ChaosBy Matthew Kliewer Bonar Menninger's and Hell Followed with It takes readers through several documentary perspectives of the 1966 EF-5 tornado that decimated parts of Topeka. Menninger’s clear interest throughout this book, beginning with the title and epigraph, is attempting to find the “why” and the “how” in the metaphysical explanations residents reached for in the storm's aftermath—the stories people sometimes must tell themselves to make sense of something so ca
2026 Fall Read: What Does it Mean to be Peninsular? (opens the original)
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What Does it Mean to be Peninsular?By Matt Kliewer In what might be my favorite poem, Grace Nichols opens Hurricane Hits England with the two lines: It took a hurricane, to bring her closerTo the landscape So many of the characters in Lauren Groff’s Florida are separated from their landscape. They are walking, running, dreaming of a way away from where they come. Across the span of about 300 pages and 11 stories, we encounter a variety of Floridians, particularly women (and only occasionally men
2026 Fall Read: As There is Wind There (opens the original)
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I’m Matt Kliewer, once from Cimarron, Kansas, now from Austin, Texas, coming to you from San Diego, California. In Nick Hunt’s introduction to Lyall Watson’s Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind, Hunt argues that in this book “[a]ll the winds of the world are inside. If you open it, you will be blown to places you never expected.” For the vast majority of my experience reading this book, Hunt’s warning was oddly prophetic, as I found myself pushed toward considerations of the impalpabl
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