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Michael Popke

Reporter · US

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Sep 2, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Michael Popke

    Chloe Benjamin’s ‘Under Story’ is speculative, urgent (opens the original)

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    Chloe Benjamin arrived in Madison from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., at age 21 to earn a master of fine arts degree from the UW, intending to stay for only two years. But she wound up living here for the next 15 — writing The Anatomy of Dreams, a 2014 psychological thriller set in the capital city that didn’t generate much buzz, and 2018’s The Immortalists, a bestseller about four siblings from New York City who as children visited a psychic who revealed to each of them the day the

  2. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Michael Popke

    APT's ‘Sueño’: a provocative and profane fairy tale (opens the original)

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    Triney Sandoval, left, as Clotaldo and Nathan Ramsey as Segismundo: passion and anguish. Sueño, a relatively new adaptation of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 17th-century Spanish-language play Life Is a Dream, is a dark horse this season at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green. Compared to Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya — all highlights of the first half of APT’s summer — Sueño and José Rivera, the P

  3. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Michael Popke

    New ‘Writing Forward’ podcast highlights writers with Wisconsin ties (opens the original)

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    Podcaster Jeff Oloizia talks with his second guest, novelist Maggie Ginsberg. Listening to Writing Forward, the new weekly podcast hosted by Madison-based freelance writer and former New York Times editor Jeff Oloizia, reinforces just how fertile the state’s writing landscape is. Through candid conversations with “writers from and connected to Wisconsin,” Oloizia celebrates craft, identity and home while also exploring the challenges of building a writing life far away from traditional pub

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