Chris Wolak

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• Announcing The Willa Cather Short Story Project!

  By Chris Wolak on January 19, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  Today is my nine-year anniversary blogging here at WildmooBooks and I’m excited to announce a new reading challenge, The Willa Cather Short Story Project! Beginning in February, I’m embarking on an adventure to read all of Cather’s short stories, one… Read More ›

• 2019 Australian Women Writers Challenge Sign-up Post

  By Chris Wolak on January 6, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  I told myself I wasn’t going to participate in any reading challenges this year other than whittling away at my Classics Club list. The Australian Women Writers Challenge, however, has drawn me in once again. I’ve participated every year since… Read More ›

• 1973 Willa Cather Stamp

  By Chris Wolak on January 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy New Year! I’m excited to kick off 2019 with a post about Willa Cather. In 1973 the United States Postal Service celebrated Willa Cather’s 100th birthday with a postage stamp. Her stamp arrived a decade before those of Edith… Read More ›

• 2018 Recap: Fiction & Poetry

  By Chris Wolak on December 29, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Earlier this month I listed and ranked the nonfiction books I read in 2018. Today I’m doing the same for the fiction & poetry I read. I’m not making any reading plans for 2019 other than keeping better track of… Read More ›

• Willa Cather Book Club January 2019

  By Chris Wolak on December 12, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  My Mortal Enemy at the Institute Library 2018 was the first year of the Willa Cather Book Group. Considering that everyone wants to continue reading Cather in 2019, I’d say it’s been a resounding success. Go Willa! First Meeting of 2019… Read More ›

• 2018 Recap: Non-Fiction

  By Chris Wolak on December 7, 2018 • ( 18 )

  

  Overall, 2018 was an excellent non-fiction reading year for me. Here’s a list of all the nonfiction books I read in three categories.

• Visiting Fitz-Greene Halleck Monuments

  By Chris Wolak on November 28, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

    “No name in the American poetical world is more firmly established than that of Fitz-Greene Halleck.” — Edgar Allan Poe I first wrote about Fitz-Greene Halleck back in April, which you can read here. Halleck hailed from Guilford, CT,… Read More ›

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