National Book Award-finalist Charles Baxter is best known for his novels, essays and poetry. He spoke with KMUW's Beth Golay about his most recent work... a comedy.
Plus more on these stories:
- As COMCARE prepares to expand to downtown Wichita, the Substance Abuse Center of Kansas will also move with the crisis center.
- A free speech advocacy group says the University of Kansas was wrong to discipline an instructor who was caught on tape making inflammatory political remarks in class.
- An autopsy shows that a 15-year-old football lineman from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School died from heat stroke after a workout in August.
- The number of children in Kansas dying from drug-related incidents is rising.
- Kansas and 19 other states, along with nursing home industry groups, are suing the federal government over a rule that would set new minimum staffing requirements in nursing homes.
- The city of Augusta will receive more than half a million dollars to make walking and biking there easier.
Producers: Haley Crowson
Editors: Haley Crowson and Tom Shine
Contributors: Kylie Cameron, Daniel Caudill, Beth Golay, Mia Hennen, Natalie Krebs, Dylan Lysen, and Sam Zeff
Theme music: Torin Andersen
Digital editor: Karlee Cooper
