| Source | WBEZ |
|---|---|
| Original Load Date | Jan. 20, 2026, 6:04 a.m. |
| Last Updated | Jan. 20, 2026, 6:04 a.m. |
| Original URL | https://www.wbez.org/books/2026/01/20/lingering-inland-university-of-illinois-press-midwestern-literature |
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Seemingly unrelated places — from authors’ homes to grave sites to garbage
dumps-turned-golf courses — serve as the imagination for writers of the essays
in “Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest.”
The new creative nonfiction collection of 73 essays (University of Illinois
Press) is insp...