Fiction and History

Tag: Steve Wiegenstein

  • The Uses, Misuses, and Boundaries of History in Fiction about Missouri’s Civil War

    [March 22, 2013, I’ll be on a panel at the Missouri Conference on History in Cape Girardeau put on by the State Historical Society of Missouri. A double honor, in that all through graduate school and my stint at University of Arkansas Press I was a subscriber and devoted reader of the Missouri Historical Review,…

  • The Next Big Thing

    The Next Big Thing is a game of literary tag. On their blogs, writers answer a few questions about a work-in-progress, then tag other writers, who do the same, tagging more writers and more–forever. It’s like a chain letter, or a pyramid scheme for people without any money, often writers! Michael Downs, a good soul…