Regional identity - and Midwestern identity specifically - is something that I think about a lot. Kathleen grew up in the Woodridge–Downers Grove area, and her family hails from Nebraska, so she’s credentialed as a native Midwesterner. (Specifically in the town of Katy “the western suburbs of Houston” could plausibly describe an area the size of Connecticut.) My spouse Kathleen Rooney and I bounced around the country for a while - Washington DC, Boston, Provincetown, Tacoma, WA - but we’ve lived in the Edgewater neighborhood on the far north side of Chicago since 2007. Martin Seay: I’m a relative newcomer to the Midwest, having grown up in the western suburbs of Houston. Lauren Stachew: What’s your connection to the Midwest? Midwestern Gothic staffer Lauren Stachew talked with author Martin Seay about his book The Mirror Thief, coordinating three separate stories into one novel, encouraging empathetic openness through fiction, and more.
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