Nearly 300 people tuned into the inaugural Honest Dog author chat featuring Blair Braverman, author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, a columnist for Outside magazine (Tough Love), and a 2019 Iditarod finisher. And they were in for a treat. One attendee said it was the most socialization they had had in months; for another, […]

I met Mary Dougherty for the first time when our girls’ second grade teacher sent out a call for field trip ideas. Mary owned a restaurant; I had sled dogs. The teacher told us to come up with a plan so Charly and I snowshoed out a trail behind the restaurant. Half the kids rode […]

BAYFIELD – Washburn author Julie Buckles recently took a poetry-inspired journey to Bayfield in search of a book. She ended up with a few thousand books instead after that trip led to the purchase of the iconic What Goes ‘Round used book store, now rechristened Honest Dog Books. Buckles had been painting her son’s room, […]

By Jonny Diamond | lithub.com Buried deep within the alluvial silt of Twitter’s great and brackish tidal id one discovers, every now and then, a gem pure and bright. So it was I came across this thread from Bayfield, Wisconsin resident Julie Buckles, telling the story of her impulse buy (!?) of used bookstore, What Goes […]