#WNIJReadWithMe - Fictional Reporter Returns In Political Thriller
Wisconsin Village At Epicenter Of Presidential Campaign, Gay Marriage Debate This could be the headline of a Leo Townsend article about the conflict in his hometown of Endeavor, Wis. The fictional...
View ArticleOttawa's 'Radium Girls' At Forefront of Worker Protections
April 5, 1938, is an important day for worker safety advocates. On that Tuesday, a judge ruled that a woman's slow, painful degeneration resulted from working at the Radium Dial Company plant in...
View ArticleNew Law Would Require Cost Breakdown For Unfunded Mandates
A bill approved by the General Assembly last week aims to provide more information about local spending required by new state laws. A task force led by Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti found that Illinois...
View Article'Read With Me' Author Explores The Impact Of Music
"Every human being is an archeological site. What passes for roots is actually a matter of sediment, of accretion, of chance and juxtaposition." This quotation from writer and critic Luc Sante is a...
View Article'Read With Me' Series Turns To Speculative Fiction
Pick up The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id , and you might guess it involves psychology with words like "paracosm" and "Id." But the phrase "Shapers of the Id" is a clue...
View Article'Read With Me' Author Finds Inspiration In Family -- And Aging
On her "Medicare Birthday," author Marnie O. Mamminga celebrated by swimming to an island in Big Spider Lake near Hayward, Wis. No easy feat for a 65-year-old. The lake, where Mamminga spent nearly all...
View ArticleNovel Within A Novel Continues 'Read With Me' Series
A Fine Line is a novel featuring Sebastian Drake, a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune . A Fine Line is also the name of Drake's novel, which features Jack Cannon, a cop struggling to keep his job...
View ArticleDad's Song Is At the Heart Of 'Read With Me' Memoir
David W. Berner 's latest book is about a song he wrote for his children and his journey to perform it for the first time in public. Berner's composition, a finalist in a national contest, is the star...
View ArticleLive Video: FBI Director Testifies Before House Committee
FBI Director Christopher Wray is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing. He is likely to face questions about the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert...
View ArticleAncient Poem Is At The Heart Of 'Read With Me' Novel
When a poet writes a novel, it's natural to expect the story to include a poem or some reference to poetry. For her debut novel, poet Marydale Stewart uses a 10th Century verse, "The Wanderer," as a...
View ArticleMidwestern Essays Reveal Humility In Nature's Shadow
Not long ago, the waters off Door County, Wis., had a reputation for danger. Door County gets its name from Porte des Mortes -- French for "door of the dead" -- and for good reason; there are dozens of...
View Article'Read With Me' Novel Portrays Neverland As Never Before
Few people know Peter Pan like Andrea Jones . She loves the 1953 animated Disney classic, plus Mary Martin's and Sandy Duncan's portrayals of the flying forever-boy. She's also deeply familiar with...
View Article'Read With Me' Novel Blends Espionage And Sci-Fi
One day you're an attractive secret agent. The next day you can't look into a mirror without feeling disgust. That's the basic premise of Seven-Sided Spy , a Cold War thriller featuring a trio of CIA...
View Article'Read With Me' Author Remembers Old Neighborhood Through Fiction
The "Back of the Yards" is a neighborhood near the old Chicago Stockyards. Since the early 20th Century, it housed immigrants who processed meat in the city that Carl Sandberg dubbed "Hog Butcher for...
View Article'Read With Me' Author Explores Private Space Travel
The Mission to the Stars series about faster-than-light (FTL) travel begins with a family tragedy. Married couple Jeff and Jennifer Bindl are killed while testing the first spaceship designed for FTL...
View Article'Read With Me' Encore: Return to Wake Robin
Editor's note: Our original interview with Marnie Mamminga was published in June, 2013. The author returned to the WNIJ studios in July, 2018, to add the video excerpt below. 450 miles. That's the...
View ArticleWNIJ To Be 'On Point' Every Friday
"Go beyond the headlines" is the invitation from On Point , a news and issues program produced by WBUR in Boston. Next month, the program gets a new host -- Dave Folkenflik -- and a new station: WNIJ....
View Article'Read With Me' Encore: Winning Cubs Prompt Crisis For Loser Coach
WNIJ is re-visting the "Read With Me" library for some summer reading. One novel about a coach for the Chicago Cubs, The Clubhouse Thief , seems ripe for a second look with the Cubs leading the...
View Article'Read With Me' Encore: The Value Of Short Stories
For National Literacy Month, WNIJ dug into the archives for one of our more popular "Read With Me" interviews. Today's feature originally aired Oct. 16, 2017. An episode of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched...
View ArticleWNIJ Changes Will Benefit Fans Of Sports, Music and Illinois News
NPR's Only a Game is about to move to prime time in WNIJ's broadcast schedule. So is Sessions from Studio A . Only a Game describes itself as "radio for the serious sports fan and the steadfast sports...
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