by Elisa Korenne | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog, News
My short story “John Olaf Todahl and the Petrified Man” won the Minnesota History Center’s Flash Mystery Contest. It is based on the live story I tell in my Minnesota’s Ordinarily Unsung Concert about the Petrified Man of Bloomer, Minnesota. I...
by Elisa Korenne | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog
I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness recently. Not that I haven’t thought about it before: as someone prone to depression, it’s one of the topics I think about most. But recently, I have been thinking about happiness in terms of the small moments in one’s life...
by Elisa Korenne | Jul 7, 2017 | About The Book, Blog, Hundred Miles to Nowhere, Writing
PRAISE FOR Elisa Korenne’s debut book Hundred Miles to Nowhere: An Unlikely Love Story. “Big city girl marries a small town guy—that story. But never more engagingly told than in Hundred Miles to Nowhere. It’s full of humor, heart, and in the end proves that...
by Elisa Korenne | Jul 7, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Writing
When I passed the old man shooting baskets alone on the neighborhood basketball court, my foot did a double take on the brake pedal. The man’s back and shoulders were hunched with age. The fraying sleeves of his utility jacket bunched up as he aimed the ball,...
by Elisa Korenne | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Here are the links for the July Newsletter: Smatterings Books: This month I discovered the mystery writer Laura Joh Rowland and her Sano Ichiro novels, incredible historical mysteries set in feudal Japan with rich plots and evocative description. I also revisited the...
by Elisa Korenne | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter, Oddball of the Month, Ordinarily-Unsung
This month I chose as the featured oddball a woman whose story was a hit from my newest live show, “Crazy About You: Sifting for Sanity in the History of the Insane.” Elizabeth Packard was a nineteenth-century oddball–and I say this with great...
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