![]() ![]() ![]() (As the reviewer for this journal declared, “ Shotgun Lovesongs seems to be, well, a bit of a love song to the rolling midwestern landscape, to the stalwart midwestern character.”) Two other top-notch writers at the top of their game set novels in rural and small town Iowa that have secured national attention and awards. There might never have been a novel more explicitly devoted to celebrating the Midwest than Nickolas Butler’s well-loved Shotgun Lovesongs, set in rural and small town Wisconsin, near Eau Claire. ![]() The year 2014 might have been a banner year for scholars of the Midwest, with the launch of this journal and the Midwestern History Association, but it was also a banner year for the Midwest in literary fiction. ![]()
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