Midwestern Edition

DAVID ROASTED & SALTED SUNFLOWER SEEDS
Looks fun, but you must shell them with your tongue.

ILLINOIS
By Sufjan Stevens
Walking around New York listening to "Chicago" feels like cheating.

LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN
Birthplace of Dungeons & Dragons. Worth a pilgrimage—but when?

LAWN
Woah: You're big, and have flowers, pools, and sometimes trampolines.

MARSHALLS
On Iowa Marshalls' racks, Marc Jacobs hangs waiting for me.

OHIO
What's round at both ends and high in the middle?

RAIN
This rain sounds like the ocean. Or like angry wheat.

RELIGIOUS HIGHWAY SIGNS
Let's show off the Ten Commandments, or at least five.

THE STONES OF SUMMER
By Dow Mossman
A roaring pastoral freakout, now available at Barnes & Noble.

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CITY
By Jonathan Franzen
Beware sinister connections between St. Louis real estate and terrorism