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From yesterday’s gingham girls to today’s Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer’s Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America’s farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and literature. In this first-of-its-kind treatment, [...]
November’s Small Press Bookwatch named Native Soulmate: A Season in Search of a Love Homegrown a Reviewer’s Choice, calling it a “charming and original read, very much recommended.” The Des Moines Register agrees, praising Zachary Michael Jack’s latest book of creative nonfiction as “a deeply personal and heartfelt journey.” Native Soulmate, a follow-up to What [...]
The Links of Evalon has earned praise from across the golf world since its publication for the U.S. Open in 2010. Sample the reactions: “If you believe golf can repair our relationships and teach the game of life, The Links of Evalon is for you!” GEORGE KIRSCH, Manhattan College, author of Golf in America “Jack’s [...]
What Cheer: A Love Story was recently awarded the Silver Medal in its class as the runner-up in the 2010 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year competition. Part romantic comedy, part whodunit, part great American road trip, What Cheer asks a lover’s ageless questions: where, when, and with whom? Here is a celebration of love [...]
Let There be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper’s Year in America’s Garden of Golf was released in June 2011 to widespread critical acclaim. Sample reviewer reactions to Zachary Michael Jack’s latest work of literary journalism and creative nonfiction covering the legendary California course and its fairy-tale setting on the Monterey Peninsula. Read the full text of Martin [...]