17th
October
2000
Peeling away at the Onion
“What does anyone know about Madison? Let’s see: lefty town; home of the sporting Badgers; the ‘Second City of Slack’ (can you name the first?); setting for ‘Crossing to Safety,’ the most easterly of Westerner Wallace Stegner’s many novels, and thus the one most people have read. And Madison is the improbable home of the nation’s funniest humor magazine, The Onion.”