God's Little Isthmus

Counterculture and the university collide again in this engaging sequel to Madlands. A nudist running for City Council, a battle for tenure, bulimia and a boycott strain political correctness on the Isthmus. Madlands, the first novel by J. Allen Kirsch, was published by Waubesa Press in 1993. Kirsch earned a PhD. in Spanish literature from the University of Wisconsin and has lived in Madison and New Orleans

Here's what people said about Madlands, the first novel by J. Allen Kirsch:

"He (Kirsch) renders it with the wicked eye of the insider, with a sense of the low drama and high rhetoric that make witty academic novels a pleasure... It will make you remember the heartbreak and wisdom and laughs that can be acquired in two semesters."
-- New Orleans Times-Picayune

"Madlands is a novel worth reading -- for its frankness, its attention to detail, its way of dealing with contemporary issues like sexual harassment, and simply for the fact that it's about Madison, not New York or San Francisco."
-- Feminist Bookstore News

"Madlands is a delightful satire about political correctness run amok on the University of Wisconsin campus in 1985."
-- San Diego Update

"The mix of Separatists, YUDs (Young Urban Dropouts), vegetarians and holdovers from the sixties keeps the narrative brew bubbling... And with forefathers like Dickens, Kirsch eventually ties up all the loose ends of his story."
-- Wisconsin Light (Milwaukee)

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