Michael Popke
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Chloe Benjaminâs âUnder Storyâ 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 â writing The Anatomy of Dreams, a 2014 psychological thriller set in the capital city that didnât generate much buzz, and 2018âs 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
APT's âSueñoâ: 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 Barcaâs 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 Wilderâs The Matchmaker, William Shakespeareâs As You Like It, and Anton Chekhovâs Uncle Vanya â all highlights of the first half of APTâs summer â Sueño and José Rivera, the P
New âWriting Forwardâ 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 stateâs writing landscape is. Through candid conversations with âwriters from and connected to Wisconsin,â 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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