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Adventures, Appearances, Book Tour, North of the Tension Line, Small Town Life, squirrels and other creatures · October 16, 2016

Upcoming Appearance: Edgerton Sterling North Book and Film Festival

In case you missed it, my column on small town life is posted online in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  If you'd like to talk with me about it, stop by at the Sterling North Book and Film Festival. Raccoons optional. Saturday, November 5, 2016 9am – 5pm Edgerton High School 200 Elm High …

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North of the Tension Line, Small Town Life · October 14, 2016

In Praise of Small Towns

My column that will appear in Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.   A writer in a national magazine recently theorized that small town voters who are worried about the deterioration of American culture are “insular” and unenlightened, stuck in the past, resistant to progress. Having grown up …

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J.F. Riordan’s first book of personal essays is by turns deeply spiritual and gently comic, these brief meditations range from the inconveniences of modern life to the shifting nature of grief. Whether it’s an unexpected revelation from a trip to the hardware store, a casual encounter with a tow-truck driver, the changing seasons, or a conversation with a store clerk grieving for a dog, J. F. Riordan captures and magnifies the passing beauty of the ordinary and the extraordinary that lingers near the surface of daily life.

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About J.F. Riordan

Called a “modern-day Jane Austen,” J.F. Riordan’s lyrical prose and rich characters are a tribute to small town life and the beauty of the ordinary.

Peopled with sharply drawn characters whose experiences are by turns serious, mystical, and ridiculous, her books bring into sharp focus the pitfalls and vicious politics that prevail in small towns everywhere.

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Categories

  • Adventures
  • Advice
  • Appearances
  • Bas Bleu
  • BEA
  • Beaufort Books
  • Beaufort Boooks
  • Birthdays
  • Book clubs
  • Book Tour
  • Dog singing
  • dogs
  • Domesticity
  • Door County
  • Easter
  • editing
  • Education
  • Elections
  • Exile
  • Faith
  • Fiona Campbell
  • For the love of dogs
  • Fourth of July
  • Goats
  • Good Friday
  • Gracie
  • Grief
  • Jane Austen
  • kitten
  • Loneliness
  • Marriage
  • Memories
  • Miracles
  • New website
  • North of the Tension Line
  • Pali
  • Pay it Forward
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • procrastinating
  • publishing
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Reviews
  • Small Town Life
  • squirrels and other creatures
  • strangers
  • The Audacity of Goats
  • The indignities of modern life
  • The indignities of travel
  • Theater
  • turkeys
  • Uncategorized
  • Washington Island
  • Washington Post
  • Wedding
  • Winter
  • writing

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