STEPHEN J. LYONS’s latest book is A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America (Globe Pequot). He lives in Monticello, Illinois, and teaches in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois. To help overcome his recently discovered fear of bridges, he has been driving over short spans that cross the Mississippi River. His goal is to drive across the I-57 bridge over the Ohio River — more than three-quarters of a mile long — with his eyes open.

Killing Time

by Stephen J. Lyons, November 2006 (Issue 371)

The Unfinished Work

by Stephen J. Lyons, May 2004 (Issue 341)

End Times

by Stephen J. Lyons, October 2003 (Issue 334)

Letter From Central Illinois

by Stephen J. Lyons, April 2003 (Issue 328)

How I Failed At Farming (Again)

by Stephen J. Lyons, January 2002 (Issue 313)

Seymour's Last Dollar

by Stephen J. Lyons, October 2001 (Issue 310)

Halfway Home

by Stephen J. Lyons, February 2001 (Issue 302)

Leaving The West

by Stephen J. Lyons, February 2000 (Issue 290)

This Moment In Time In Brooklyn

by Stephen J. Lyons, June 1999 (Issue 282)

Time Past, Time Remaining

by Stephen J. Lyons, May 1999 (Issue 281)

The Life And Times Of A Minor Western Writer

by Stephen J. Lyons, April 1999 (Issue 280)

Blowing It In Idaho

by Stephen J. Lyons, June 1998 (Issue 270)

What's For Lunch?

by Stephen J. Lyons, February 1998 (Issue 266)

Longevity

by Stephen J. Lyons, November 1997 (Issue 263)

Random Acts Of Life

by Stephen J. Lyons, September 1996 (Issue 249)

Dad Left, So We Got A Television Set

by Stephen J. Lyons, July 1996 (Issue 247)

Living for Swans

by Stephen J. Lyons, February 1996 (Issue 242)

Eight Days In Brooklyn

by Stephen J. Lyons, July 1995 (Issue 235)

My New Neighbors

by Stephen J. Lyons, February 1995 (Issue 230)