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Blanchardville Public Library local author talk Sept. 13
Kat Kruse

BLANCHARDVILLE — The Blanchardville Public Library will host local author Kathryn Kruse to discuss her new book, “To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone”. The talk will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 at the library, 208 Mason Street.

Kathryn Kruse is the director of Residency on the Farm in Argyle, WI, an interdisciplinary artists’ residency program. Her work has appeared, among other places, in the pages of Indiana Review, The Manchester Review, Interim, Jet Fuel, and The Adirondack Review. A finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award, a recipient of the UW- Madison Eudora Welty Fiction Prize, and a Pushcart nominee, she holds an MFA from UNLV; after sojourns around the world and in the US, she now lives back near the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago. To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone is her first collection.

It could be called Absurdist Realism or Midwestern Gothic, it is a book of stories that get a hold of the reader’s head and heart. “To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone” takes the reader to the edge of lived experience and guides the reader to look back in wonder at essential elements of humanness: hope, grief, confusion, joy.