Kelly K. Ferguson is the author of My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself (Press 53). Her work has appeared in Witness, New England Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Cincinnati Review, and other publications. Over the past ten years, she has moved from southern Louisiana to southern Ohio back to southern Louisiana onto southern Utah back to southern Ohio, where she is Assistant Professor of Magazine Media in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
Writer, editor, and photographer Douglas Cruickshank talks about retiring to Uganda, his new book Somehow: Living on Uganda Time, and the perils of writing about Africa as a Westerner.
Discussing their collaborative book, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton tackle neighbors, sexuality, and the fetishization of pets.