In order to write her latest novel, Ape House (available September 7), Sara Gruen--author of the bestselling novel Water for Elephants--studied linguistics and a system of lexigrams so that she could communicate directly with the bonobos living at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. Gruen now considers them to be part of her … Continue reading "They’re apes and we’re apes.”
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South Dakota Nice
Jon Lauck reads from Prairie Republic:The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889--Sunday, August 22, 4:00pm, at M&Q.American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota’s formative decade. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck artuges that settlers from … Continue reading South Dakota Nice
All Fall Down
No one was injured last week when four shelves in Indiana State University's Cunningham Memorial Library collapsed, tipping 25,000 books onto the floor. Workers were replacing the base of an empty set of shelves when it fell over and the other three were knocked down like dominoes in a row. Library officials expect it will … Continue reading All Fall Down
Musings from Magers and Quinn 