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ChiRunning is a New Approach to Running Injury-Freenew
What if all -- or even most -- of those running injuries you've sustained over the years were attributable to poor biomechanics? What if someone suggested a running technique that could forestall a recurrence of your Achilles tendonitis or plantar fasciitis, relieve your chronic knee and ankle pain and help prevent more muscle pulls?
Bike Polo Brings a Familiar Game to the Asphaltnew
It's a warm Sunday afternoon on the tennis courts at a Madison park, and two teams of three riders -- each with a mallet in one hand, handlebars gripped in the other and both feet on the pedals -- are going after a street-hockey ball yet somehow avoiding collisions with each other.
Forty Years After His Death, King's Legacy Lives Onnew
Like Dec. 7, 1941, Nov. 22, 1963, and Sept. 11, 2001, April 4, 1968 is a date that's forever etched upon many people's minds.
On the Pleasures and Perils of Sports Footwearnew
As my recreational interests have broadened, I've developed a significant case of footwear buildup -- moreover, my rate of acquisition has been accelerating.
Tags: fashion
Coasting Along with Shimanonew
Trek's new bikes make cycling simple again.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
07-09-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Flak Photo's Wide Focusnew
The Madison-based site wins Photobloggies Award.
Tags: computers & technology
Yes, Virginia, There Is an American Dream
C.J. Hribal's sweeping new novel, The Company Car, follows one family's 50-year pursuit of the American Dream. But does the American Dream still exist? If so, is it still worth pursuing? Hribal addresses these and other questions about our social landscape in an interview.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Exhilaration of Being Published
Rebecca Meacham, author of the acclaimed debut story collection Let's Do, admits to feeling the pressure to perform with her forthcoming second book, but extolls the enormous pleasures of her craft -- such as inscribing a copy of Let's Do for her elementary-school choir teacher.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Power of Sisterhood
The Wisconsin writer's upcoming book is about a woman who died too soon and whose funeral honors all women who have loved and lost, and who grieve and still need to live.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Another Look at Frailty
In an email interview, Bee Season author Myla Goldberg discusses her new novel set during the flu pandemic of 1918, her musical and spelling prowess, and her fondness for "the full spectrum of language."
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Burdens of Being the FOUND Guy
The creator of FOUND magazine has a collection of short fiction out, and he says he had to urge Simon & Schuster not to publish it in a flushable format.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Love, Death and the Paranormal
It took art professor Audrey Niffenegger 14 years to complete her latest book, and she hopes readers of her best-selling The Time Traveler's Wife "will not be so startled" by her new illustrated novel "that they choke on their coffee."
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Q&A with Nell Freudenberger
The author explains the geographical and thematic focus in her collection of five short novellas; and identifies the book from her childhood that left the most lasting impression on her.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-06-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Q&A with Mary Helen Stefaniak
The novelist discusses the rationale behind the braided structure of The Turk and My Mother, identifies her muse, explains how and why she lives in both Omaha and Iowa City, and, when asked whether she has any tattoos, crafts the most enigmatic one-word response imaginable.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-06-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Q&A with Faith Adiele
Faith Adiele attempts to summarize her spiritual journey in the form of a koan; discusses the ways in which her memoir's intended audience has differed from the audience it has found; and tells a story about how close she came to getting a tattoo inspired by a Nigerian pattern.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-06-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
