March 5, 2019 • Page 10 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Gov. Ricketts Announces Matt Mason as New Nebraska State Poet The Bookworm Dark Humor Makes ‘No Good’ A Good Read “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” by Helene Tursten, translated by Marlaine Delargy; © 2018, Soho Press; 184 pages ——— BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYR new fiance was not to be trusted. Proving the scam would be hard and it might embarrass Gustaf, and so instead Maud found the woman — and she killed her. Murder, you see, is easy when you’re a fit, healthy almostGrowing older is a very good 90-year-old. It takes care of many thing. of the world’s problems and, as First of all, there’s a secret to Maud knew, nobody would ever it: aging isn’t as important as are suspect an elderly lady of killing the perks of aging. Free desserts. anyone … would they? Discounts everywhere. Better Grandma always told you to reparking spots. Interesting memospect your elders. You might grow ries. And, as in the new book “An old someday, she said, leaving the Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” by rest to your imagination. Helene Tursten, the chance to get Betcha she never had someone away with murder. like Maud in mind … No matter what they did, Maud downstairs, though that’s what And that’s what makes “An was staying put. Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” famous-for-being-famous Jasmin Her apartment had been home Schimmerhof wanted Maud to do. so delightfully grim and howlingly for 88 years, thanks to lawyers funny: despite stereotypes that Jasmin had a tiny apartment bewho’d drawn up a contract when low Maud’s home, but she wanted author Helene Tursten carefully Maud’s father died seven decades Maud’s spacious flat so there’d cultivates on the side, Maud’s ago, leaving her mother near pen- be room for more “art.” Subtlety, no apple-cheeked little Granny. niless. Then, kindly new buyers Expletives are quick to her lips, Jasmin believed, would get her for the apartment’s building had she’s independent as a cat, her what she wanted but Maud saw agreed to allow the widow and schemes are smoothly diabolithrough Jasmin’s ruse — and she her daughters to stay, rent-free, cal, and she’s not above a little killed her. for as long as they wished — of Ah, but Maud wasn’t always so larceny if the chance presents course, never dreaming any agree- ill-tempered and churlish. Once, itself. A con with a walker, an ment could last so long. It wasn’t anti-Jessica-Fletcher, she’s also when she was a girl, she fell in a very big place but a renegotian Oscar-worthy actress when love with a man whose family ated small fee and the cost of it comes to avoiding detection. ended the engagement when utilities was all Maud paid to live Crimes aside, Maud is basically they realized that Maud’s family there. was poor. She never forgot her be- what we all want to be like when So no, she wasn’t going anywe’re “elderly.” loved Gustaf, and because she’d where. This is the perfect antidote to kept track of him over the years, She was especially not moving nice little mysteries that wrap up she knew that his much-younger sweetly because there’s very little sweetness g? here. What you’ll find, a new home or remodelin Thinking of building instead, is gleefully-dark Let us help you with all delight in short-story your building needs! form. For whodunit lovers, “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” is very, very good. Office: (605) 665-1500 Contact: Kisch Construction Nick: (605) 660-3873 From concept to creation. Quality & Integrity since 1981! LINCOLN, Neb. — Gov. Pete Ricketts has announced that Matt Mason of Omaha has been designated as Nebraska’s next State Poet. The selection process was led by the Nebraska Arts Council, Humanities Nebraska, and the Nebraska Library Commission, a group of state agencies and organizations that together presented finalists to the Governor for consideration. Mason will be installed as Nebraska State Poet 2019-2023 during a ceremony that will be announced at a later date. “From Willa Cather to Ted Kooser, Nebraska has been home to many talented authors, artists and poets,” said Gov. Ricketts. “As our next State Poet, Matt will help celebrate Nebraska and bring our state together around our shared love of the Good Life.” The Nebraska State Poet is selected based on artistic excellence and exemplary professionalism demonstrated by significant publications and special honors, an established history of community service in the advancement of poetry in Nebraska, and the ability to present poetry and interact effectively with a public audience. Mason is executive director of the Nebraska Writers Collective, through which he has run the Louder Than a Bomb: Great Plains youth poetry festival each year since 2011. He is a former board president of the Nebraska Center for the Book and has served as the Nebraska State Coordinator for Poetry Out Loud, a Poetry Foundation/National Education Association program. He also edits PoetryMenu.com, a listing of every poetry event in the state of Nebraska. Additionally, Mason has won a Pushcart Prize and two Nebraska Book Awards (for Poetry in 2007 and Anthology in 2006) for his own work. He represented Nebraska as a member of six teams at the National Poetry Slam, and he represented the United States as an organizer of the U.S. Department of State poetry programing in Romania, Nepal, Botswana and Belarus. As Nebraska State Poet, Mason will serve a five-year renewable term as an advocate for poetry, literacy, and literature in Nebraska. 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