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Every December since 2010, Lake Effect has been joined by writer and game expert James Lowder. He is the editor of the award-winning essay anthologies…

For someone who is not himself a combat veteran, Milwaukee writer Nick Petrie sure gets it.Last year, his debut novel, The Drifter, came out to great…

Much of writer Emily Fridlund’s new novel, A History of Wolves, plays out in a remote part of a lonely town in northern Minnesota. But anyone who reads it…

Although ballet dancers begin training quite young, their professional lives are often short. Most dancers have moved on to another career by the time…

"I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian/Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation," rhymes the late MC Malik Izaak Taylor, aka 'Phife Dawg,' of…

If you were an alien on vacation to earth, you’d be forgiven for thinking humans never shut up. We talk all the time: right here on radio and on…

Many people set New Year’s resolutions regarding weight loss, exercise and health. From Atkins to Paleo to cleanses, there is never a shortage of diet…

Milwaukee writer Lesley Kagen has been a regular guest on Lake Effect ever since her first novel, Whistling in the Dark, was published a decade ago. In…

The name T Bone Burnett is almost synonymous with the word legendary. You could also use the words innovative, brilliant and visionary.Burnett catapulted…

Even if you are entirely happy with the state of world affairs circa 2017, the idea of disappearing can be alluring - especially in the midst of a…