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A New Chapter – Reader’s Loft Closing, Lion’s Mouth Opening
by, Audrey Arnold
September 10, 2019

For 26 years, the Reader’s Loft bookstore in Green Bay has served the community, but on August 31, the store closed its doors. This comes following store owner Virginia Kress’s announcement of her retirement on the Reader’s Loft website and Facebook page. “These past 26 years have brought so much joy I don’t even know how to properly express it,” she writes, “Not just the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Amy Mazzariello, book culture, Book Festival, Brown County Library, CityDeck, Downtown Green Bay, Fox River Trail, independent bookstore, Kickstarter, Lion's Mouth, Margaret Atwood, Meyer Theater, R. L. Stine, Readers Loft, Roxanne Gay, Susan Orlean, UntitledTown, UntitledTown Book and Author Festival, Virginia Kress, Walter Mosley
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Untitled Town Book Festival April 28-30 in Green Bay
by, Jill Swenson
April 25, 2017

A new book festival brings Sherman Alexie and Margaret Atwood to the Packer’s Title Town the end of this month. Untitled Town Book and Author Festival is the first event of its kind for the greater Green Bay area and plans to unite readers, writers, podcasters, storytellers, publishers, books, and Packer fans. Alexie and Atwood are not the only big name authors who are featured… [Read More]

Filed Under: Alexie Sherman, David McGlynn, Larry Scheckel, Margaret Atwood, memoir, Storycatchers, Untitled Town Book Festival
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The Young Adult Apocalypse
by, Samantha Kolb
July 19, 2016

  The world is coming to an end. At least, that’s what it feels like. In contemporary fiction, apocalyptic stories have captured the attention of young adult readers. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave, and Veronica Roth’s Divergent series—these novels found millions of fans and have become immortalized on the silver screen. But why? One answer that comes to mind involves the stories… [Read More]

Filed Under: apocalyptic fiction, Divergent, equality, George Orwell, Hunger Games, justice, Margaret Atwood, presidential campaign, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth
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