Midwest Writers Room
Podcast from the Wisconsin Writers Association. We discuss all things writerly, with an emphasis on the unique flavor of works that originate in the Midwest.
Midwest Writers Room
Chapter Break with Brian Reisinger
BIO:
Brian Reisinger is an award-winning writer who grew up working with his dad on their family farm in Sauk County, Wisconsin. He lives to tell the hidden stories of rural America and has been published by USA Today, Newsweek, Yahoo News, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, PBS/Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Wisconsin Life,” The Daily Yonder, RealClearPolitics, The Hill, and elsewhere. Reisinger’s writing has won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, first place in the Seven Hills Literary Contest, a Solas Award, and more.
SYNOPSIS:
Land Rich, Cash Poor weaves forgotten eras of American history with the four-generation fight for survival of the author’s family in Midwestern farm country. Readers learn the truth about America’s most detrimental and unexplained socioeconomic crisis: How the family farms that feed us went from cutting a middle-class path through the Great Depression to barely making ends meet in modern America. With new historical analysis, honest debate, and personal storytelling, Land Rich, Cash Poor reveals how the hollowing out of rural America is affecting every single American dinner table.
LINKS:
- www.brian-reisinger.com
- Pages and Parcels, Potosi, WI -- 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 101 North Main Street, Potosi, RSVP here.
- Ridges and Rivers Book Festival, Viroqua, WI -- 11 a.m. Saturday, April 26 at Western Wisconsin Technical College, 220 S. Main St., Viroqua, WI, more info here.
