Daniel S. Comiskey

“All of my best ideas are scribbled on airplane barf bags.”

With hammers and nails, an immigrant family builds a dynasty. From Vonnegut Hardwares stems an award-winning bike trail, a Ben Affleck flick, and one of 20th century’s most important writers.

Pilsners, wheats, and porters first. Palate-crushing IPAs later.

Although she is one of 238,000 truckers living in Indiana, a state with more drivers than almost any other, Charci is easy to pick out at a crowded truck stop. Only 5 percent of drivers are women.

There are only 15 screens in the world where you’ll be able to see The Force Awakens exactly as it was shot, and one is in Indy.

Indiana’s literary tradition didn’t end with Kurt Vonnegut. And John Green is just one of the many great writers working here today. We bookmarked the state’s most accomplished authors, checked out Indy’s literary archives, and penned the Great American Blurb on where to publish locally. As you can see, there’s still a lot to write home about.

A look into the creative spots of Indiana’s authors.

Think nonfiction is boring? Think again.

Indiana’s greatest poets come from all walks of life.

Vonnegut isn’t all Indiana has to offer.

“I hate using the term ‘tearjerker’ because it’s so pejorative, but it’s almost impossible not to choke up watching this.”

Any place that can offer a St. Elmo shrimp cocktail at noon enjoys an unfair advantage with the white-tablecloth crowd.

Whether or not the First Church succeeds in cloaking itself in the RFRA, it has already brought marijuana legal reform back into public discussion.

“I think I get my demons out on the page. I’m a lot more lighthearted in real life.”

“They don’t give you the Executive Producer chair. They give you the cloth chair-back with your name on it, and then you have to buy your own chair.”