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Complete Poems, 1965-2020, by Michael Butterworth,

victor March 26, 2023 February 12, 2023Poetry Mack Hassler 0

Review by Mack Hassler I had just finished reading the 2023 collection of Clutch, which is published just at the edge of the UP, when this collection of poems by Michael Butterworth came in the mail from much farther distant but still with what I hear as deep resonance for…

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Clutch (Collection for 2023), edited by Robert M. Zoschke

victor March 25, 2023 February 12, 2023Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 0

Review by Mack Hassler I am a great believer in serendipity and feel lucky that during the past year, my name has gotten linked to the work of Zoschke as well as to Zoschke on Splake (see several reviews of mine over recent months) because now I am given a…

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Twenty Stories by Jack Driscoll

victor March 20, 2023 January 8, 2023Short Stories Brad Gischia, Jack Driscoll 0

Review by Brad Gischia You never know what you’re going to get when you open up a book of short stories.  That’s part of the fun of it.  If they’re good you’re golden, you find yourself turning pages and wishing for a little more of these characters or situations, however,…

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Redead by Tim Gould

victor March 15, 2023 February 1, 2023Horror Nikki MItchell, Tim Gould, zombies 0

Review by Nikki Mitchell Redead by Tim Gould is a humorous and witty take on an anti-hero’s experience in a zombie apocalypse. The main characters are from lower Michigan and make their way into the U.P. over the course of the book. Instead of chapters, the book is told in…

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Architectural Missionary: Fred Charlton in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1887-1918 by Steven C. Brisson

victor March 10, 2023 December 24, 2022History Tyler R. Tichelaar 0

New Book Highlights U.P.’s Most Prominent Architect Fred Charlton is not a household name in the U.P. or even in Marquette where he lived, yet he deserves to be as well known as Peter White, John M. Longyear, Louis G. Kaufman, and many other notable U.P. figures. Perhaps more than…

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The Wicked Sister by Karen Dionne

victor March 1, 2023 December 5, 2022Thrillers Karen Dionne, Sharon Brunner 0

Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Karen Dionne’s “The Wicked Sister” is a novel filled with suspense and murder nestled in a wilderness setting with no phone service. The first chapter begins with Rachel envisioning a scene with her holding a rifle and killing someone she loved, and part of the story appears…

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Digging Up the Truth and Other Big Bay Stories by Faye Bowers

victor February 20, 2023 December 24, 2022History, Uncategorized Tyler Tichelaar 0

Review by Tyler Tichelaar In Digging Up the Truth and Other Big Bay Stories, Faye Bowers, a native of Big Bay, Michigan and longtime professional journalist, shares stories informed by her quest to set straight the historical record. The result is a series of stories that shed light into some…

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The Wonderful Friendship by David Swindell

victor February 15, 2023 December 21, 2022Middle Grade Fiction 0

Reviewer: Sharon Brunner David Swindell’s book “The Wonderful Friendship” sparked revelations about problems people face, how to resolve such problems and how to live a good life. Davie, Ida May and Aunt Mimi had to put on their thinking caps to come up with ways to solve serious problems. Ida…

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A Quiet Foghorn: more notes from a deaf gay life by Raymond Luczak

victor February 10, 2023 February 20, 2023Biography / Men Raymond Luczak 0

Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Raymond Luczak, in this collection of essays called A Quiet Foghorn: more notes from a deaf gay life, renders an insightful and powerful message about his life as a Deaf gay man. At the age of 8 months, he began his journey as a hearing-challenged individual. As…

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High on the Vine: Featuring Yooper Entrepreneurs Tami and Evi Maki By Terri Martin

victor February 1, 2023 February 1, 2023Humor Terri Martin 0

Review by Victor R. Volkman Fans of Terri Martin’s serialized stories in UP Magazine, published monthly by Porcupine Press, will be thrilled to see a new novelization of them in the just-released book High on the Vine.  This is her second humor anthology following Church Lady Chronicles: Devilish Encounters. Although…

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The Dockporter by Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone

victor January 20, 2023 February 11, 2023Humor Mackinac Island 1

Review by Victor R. Volkman The Dockporter by Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone is a rollicking trip to Mackinac Island, that jewel of the Great Lakes that The Detroit News says sees more than 1 million visitors per year.  The island sees it all, from busloads of U.P. school kids…

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Granite Oath by James M. Jackson

victor January 15, 2023 December 19, 2022Action & Adventure James M. Jackson, Seamus McCree, Sharon Brunner 0

Book Reviewer: Sharon Brunner James M. Jackson painted a picture with “Granite Oath” of suspense and mystery about a missing woman, illicit drugs, prostitution and corrupt corporations. The location of the mishaps and tribulations occurred in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.) which began deep in the woods with an…

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The Biting Cold by Matthew Hellman

victor January 1, 2023 January 2, 2023Horror Matthew Hellman 0

Review by Victor R. Volkman What is it about wintertime that lends itself so supplely to the horror genre? Beginning with Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” in 1908, the dangerous beauty of winter was driven home.  Now throw in a dash of the supernatural, as in John W. Campbell’s…

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Lightness of being (poems), by t. kilgore splake

victor January 1, 2023 October 31, 2022Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 0

Review by Mack Hassler I think there is no argument that our writers who set themselves up as our poets are the real forerunners in language development.  Storytellers entertain us, historians order and give us useful general ideas, comic tone writers defend us against the many predators that lurk in…

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The Marsh King’s Daughter   By Karen Dionne.

victor December 25, 2022 December 17, 2022Uncategorized Karen Dionne, Mack Hassler 0

Review by Mack Hassler I think a writer develops a kind of cockiness that is helpful when he or she is accepted by the “teams” of publication in a culture.  The great poet Virgil was close to the Emperor Augustus.  Writers need patrons and mentors, and they need the teamwork…

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Piney woods (poems), chapbook by t.  kilgore splake

victor December 20, 2022 October 10, 2022Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 0

Review by Mack Hassler  This is my third review in six months of the work of this trickster with the Vonnegut-stolen name (t. kilgore splake) in the context of the “new literature” of the UP, and I think finally I begin to see clearly the profound loneliness of his chosen…

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The Ski Jumpers: A Novel by Peter Geye

victor December 10, 2022 September 1, 2022Action & Adventure Mack Hassler 0

Review by Mack Hassler One of our great origin texts Genesis speaks of “giants in the earth” (chapter 6, I recall) prior to its own set of stories.  These ancient “fathers” may have included the light dinosaur flyers.  Some of the champion ski jumpers apparently make use of their trim…

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Olav Audunsson Crossroads By Sigrid Undset, translated by Tiina Nunnally

victor December 1, 2022 October 30, 2022Folk Tales Deborah K. Frontiera, Olav Audunsson 0

Review by Deborah K. Frontiera Crossroads is the third volume of four volumes by Sigrid Undset about medieval Norway, which earned the author a Nobel Prize in Literature at the time of their original release. Even though this is a “new” publication as an English translation, it is important to…

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