Novelist Sarah Henning has built her career in community with other writers
Her latest young adult novel "The Lies They Conjure" is a 2025 Kansas Notable Book.
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C.J. Janovy on the necessity of activism: 'Not paying attention used to be a luxury'
"The LGBTQ community needs to engage politically," the journalist and author said in a recent interview. Her 2018 book “No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas” has been re-released with a new introduction.
'Just Willa': Like mother, like daughter
A new novel by Wichita native Helen Sheehy explores the lives of early 20th-century Kansas and Oklahoma farmers and ranchers. Technically fiction, “Just Willa” drips with the kinds of details that the best historians mine from deep research.
Bailey on Gandolfini: film critic & Wichita native captures the contradictory life of a beloved actor
Jason Bailey talks "Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend."
'Creepy, spooky, and downright terrifying': Joe Worley releases second horror comic anthology
"Death Itself, Vol. 2" includes work by Worley and fellow Wichita artists Dustin Parker and Suspicious Glaze. It's on sale later this month.
Meadowlark Press enters its 11th year of publishing voices from the Great Plains
To celebrate, Skyler Lovelace reviews poetry volumes by Tyler Robert Sheldon, Olive L. Sullivan, and Laura Lee Washburn from the small press' back catalog.
To the brightest little star: being an account of the Great First Grade Book War of 1979
On the first day of of Banned Books Week, we present the epic saga of one first grader’s quest to read a school library book and the beloved teacher who fought for her.
In his new book, Patrick Joseph O'Connor situates Wichita within the history of the blues
The author will promote "Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community" during appearances this fall in Topeka and Wichita, beginning with the Kansas Book Festival on September 28.
In “The Devil Raises His Own,” Scott Phillips delivers a dirty story about the seedy side of Hollywood
In his latest book, former Wichitan Scott Phillips scrapes away the shiny paint of the glamorous movie industry to reveal the pentimento underneath. In the end, the smutty, cynical novel emerges as a cheerful and genuine toast to love.