Wendy McClure

Join us in conversation with seven amazing middle-grade authors who will be discussing the craft and the business of middle-grade writing. As if that weren't enough, there will also be cupcakes!

Authors include: Amy Timberlake (One Came Home), Liesl Shurtliff (Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin), Emily Fairlie (The Tuckernuck Mysteries), Michele Weber Hurwitz (The Summer I Saved The World In 65 Days), Kate Hannigan (Cupcake Cousins), Wendy McClure (Wanderville), and Crystal Chan (Bird).

Location: Street: 4736-38 N Lincoln Ave City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60625 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us for an evening of women writers reading from their work! Seating is limited, RSVP required by email or phone. This event fills up quick!!! Featuring! Jen Lancaster Stacey Ballis Claire Zulkey Wendy McClure and Amy Guth

Location: Street: 4736-38 N Lincoln Ave City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60625 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Wendy McClure will speak & sign The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie.

For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession.

Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder-a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West.

Wendy McClure holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of The Wilder Life, I’m Not the New Me, and the creator of the online journal Pound, as well as the humor site Candyboots. She is a columnist for Bust, a regular contributor to the website Television Without Pity, and her writing has also appeared in Glamour, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Chicago.

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Thank you for supporting Wendy McClure, and your local independent bookstore!

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

Riverhead

Like millions of American women, when Wendy McClure was a girl, she longed for the life represented in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series. In The Wilder Life, McClure’s heartfelt and hilarious new book, she describes her adult quest to find the lost world of Laura Ingalls Wilder once and for all. The result is an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones. McClure is a columnist for Bust magazine and author of the memoir I’m Not the New Me. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and on This American Life.

Location: Street: 5233 N. Clark St. City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60640-2122 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Wendy McClure discusses The Wilder Life.

Obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family, children's book editor and memoirist Wendy McClure embarks on a wacky quest to recapture "the Laura experience." Wendy will discuss her new book The Wilder Life(Riverhead, $25.95), as well as her frontier-esque projects, including hand-grinding wheat for bread, buying an authentic churn, and traveling to Laura's Big Woods and Plum Creek. Whether she's enduring a prairie hailstorm, churning butter, or sitting in a replica log cabin, Wendy is always in pursuit of her childhood "Laura World." Along the way, she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood an the American West. (herebebooks)… (more)