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Wisconsin People & Ideas – Fall 2016

In this issue: Ansel Adams 2.0 and a MacArthur genius in Milwaukee, a call for artists from the Watrous Gallery, and WisconsinEye cuts through the spin. Shrimp farming in Newton, extinct birds in the Coulee, and Wisconsin authors, well, everywhere. The discovery of an unknown cellular process leads to an innovative sci/art collaboration. The weirdest noir story you'll ever read, new poems from our contest, and reviews of new titles from Wisconsin writers. Did you know that you can get this fine magazine delivered right to your door? Begin your membership in the Wisconsin Academy today and we'll send you this and three more issues of the best magazine about contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture: Wisconsin People & Ideas.

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Happenings

Complete Election Coverage and More with WisconsinEye

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Jason Smith

In an era marked by hyperpartisan political discourse and obsessive coverage of the personalities of the moment, Wisconsinites have an objective public media resource in WisconsinEye.

Happenings

UWM's Anne Basting Named MacArthur "Genius"

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Howie Magner

Theater professor Anne Basting has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, making her the sixth person living in Wisconsin to win the award.

Happenings

The Next Ansel Adams

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Emmett Mottl

Photographer and Milwaukee native Jarob Ortiz was recently selected as the new photographer for the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Program, where he will explore the architectural history of t

Wisconsin Table

Shrimp School

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Annaleigh Wetzel

Promise (for farmers) and peril (for shrimp) at a new aquaculture outfit in rural Newton.

Essay

Cheesehead Lit 101

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Marc Seals

The professor behind U-Boo's Cheesehead Lit 101 asks: What makes a distinctly Wisconsin author?

Amy Fichter, Black Tern (Chlidonias niger surinamensis), Holga 120N, Fuji Pro 400H, 2015. Specimen courtesy of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Photo Essay

Remnants

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Amy Fichter

Menomonie artist Amy Fichter’s avian meditation on what we are losing—and what we have lost.

@ the Watrous Gallery

Cellular Revision

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Lynne Harper

The collaboration behind Leslie Iwai's Daughter Cells: Inheritance, Separation & Survival.

Fiction

Lowlife

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Richard Borovsky

Wild, wacky, and utterly entertaining, the 2nd place-winning story from our 2016 fiction contest turns the hardboiled detective story on its head.

Book Review

Wisconsin On the Air, by Jack Mitchell

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Ronnie Hess

In a political season rife with hyperbole, posturing, half-truths, intolerance, and worse, author and UW–Madison Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication Jack Mitchell reminds us that there is a media outlet where intelligent debate and...

Book Review

Impersonations, by Mark Zimmermann

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Michael Kriesel

Milwaukee poet Mark Zimmermann’s first full-length poetry collection, Impersonations, dazzles with a gallery of pithy portraits written in a novel form. Take, for instance, “Osama bin Laden.”