The Finns of Michigan's UP are profiled by Lauri Anderson, who describes their comic aspects and tragic moments. Featured is Heikki, eighty years old, fond of beer, fishing, and potatoes, suspicious of barbeque grills and loathing of his smartass nep...
"Like Faulkner and O'Connor, Anderson commits his imagination to his own stamp of the universe the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Once again, in this collection, he delivers well-wrought stories of gravity and levity, of things fleeting, of a love of o...
"Mosquito Conversations: More Stories from the Upper Peninsula, arguably Lauri Anderson's best work to date, is a loosely connected group of stories based on the lives and loves of his quaint and quirky characters. Aptly named, the text operates with...
"Most writers only take about their mentors. Anderson pays homage to Hemingway by writing the famous author and his fictional world into Anderson's own tales. These stories are cleary Anderson's but Hemingway haunts the pages and is always lurking so...