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Why Farming? Looking Back to Move Forward

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The essay "Why Farming? Looking Back to Move Forward" originally appeared on Jeannie's Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! Last month’s newsletter addressed “Why Wisconsin?” but I probably should have answered this one first,  “Why Farming?” There are…
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Colored Television by Danzy Senna

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This review of Colored Television by Danzy Senna was originally published in the New York Journal of Books. Colored Television by Danzy Senna Colored Television is a sharp, comedic novel about the competing drives to make money and make art in one woman’s pursuit of her…
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Why Wisconsin? Inheritance, Migration, and Finding Home

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The essay "Why Wisconsin? Inheritance, Migration, and Finding Home" originally appeared on Jeannie's Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! It’s a question I get a lot these days. “Do you or John have family in Wisconsin?” People seem truly puzzled about…
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Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg’s 3 favorite reads in 2023

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This article on Jeannie's Best Books of 2023 was originally published on Shepherd.com. My favorite read in 2023…   Wellness By Nathan Hill Why did I love this book? Wellness is the first of my best books for 2023. Nathan Hill writes with the wisdom and…
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I’m okay with not knowing… or at least that’s what I tell myself.

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This essay originally appeared on Jeannie's Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! I need to revise last month’s newsletter in which I kvetched about my struggles with agricultural vocabulary…. because you were probably smart enough to discern the subtext - that…
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The Best Books that Utilize COVID in the Plot

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This article about five of Jeannie's favorite COVID novels was originally published on Shepherd.com. Why am I passionate about this? I am an author who also penned a novel during the pandemic, with a timeline that stretched into the first six months of the pandemic–against the…
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