Now in conversation with Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens. Click here to visit mkefilm. In his nostalgic and raucous new collection of original essays, Ira Madison III combines memoir and criticism to offer a brand-new pop-culture manifesto. Most of us remember the first TV show, movie, book, or song that made us feel understood, shaped how we live, and gave us an entire worldview. With his new book, Madison explores the key cultural moments that inspired his career as a critic and guided his coming of age as a Black, gay man in Milwaukee.
Like Chuck Klosterman before him, Ira Madison III takes seriously and analyzes the pop culture detritus that took up hours of our lives as byproducts of the late s. He has written for magazines including GQ , New York , and Cosmopolitan , and Nylon named him one of the "most reliably hilarious and incisive cultural critics writing now. From the author of The Second Home and Shoulder Season comes a page-turning story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads.
Clancy will chat with Shorewood author Lauren Fox. Please click here to register for this event at christinaclancymke. And be sure to order your copy of The Snowbirds now, too. Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their "separate but together" partnership is running up against the realities of late middle age.
But when Grant disappears during a hike, two possible outcomes shake Kim to the core β did Grant die in the wilderness? Or did he use this as a ruse to escape the marriage? Clancy captures the pulls and pushes of a relationship and brings a vibrant cast of characters to life.
Wisconsinite Nickolas Butler, author of the beloved bestseller Shotgun Lovesongs visits with his latest novel. A Forty Year Kiss is a rugged, small-town valentine for readers who still believe in sunset triumph and second chances. Please click here to register for this event at nickolasbutlermke.
