Sally Field, Dessa anchor eclectic Talking Volumes writer lineup at Fitzgerald Theater
Oscar winner and local hip-hop star join Rebecca Traister, Leif Enger and Alexander McCall Smith.
Missing World Cup? 5 great books about 'beautiful game' of soccer
NONFICTION: If you're having World Cup withdrawal, here are a few books.
Review: 'Mary B.,' by Katherine J. Chen
Fiction: The overlooked sister in "Pride and Prejudice" gets her due.
A St. Paul lake will once again be home to a floating library
The Floating Library returns to Lake Phalen for a fifth year of books on the water.
Review: 'Whistle in the Dark' by Emma Healey
FICTION: Emma Healey's thriller uses a teenager's disappearance to explore family relationships and mental health.
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Twin Cities writers honored with American Library Association Youth Media Awards
Brenda J. Child, Junauda Petrus and Dawn Quigley are honored for their debut novels for young people.
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Review: "The Open Heart Club," by Gabriel Brownstein
NONFICTION: A captivating account of the daredevil Minnesota pioneers of open-heart surgery.
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Wonder Woman comic books heat up before this year's big movie sequel
With "Wonder Woman 1984" arriving June 5, the Amazing Amazon should have a good year. Heck, she's already having a really impressive month.January saw the…
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REVIEW: 'Consider This,' by Chuck Palahniuk
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was DifferentBy Chuck Palahniuk. (Grand Central Publishing, 256 pages. $27.)Chuck Palahniuk, the eccentric bestselling novelist…
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Marlon James, Kao Kalia Yang among finalists for Minnesota Book Award
Veteran writers Marlon James, Kao Kalia Yang, Bao Phi and David Treuer are among those in the running for the annual awards.
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Review: 'Run Me to Earth,' by Paul Yoon
FICTION: A coming-of-age story set during the Vietnam War traces the fates of a group of young people from Laos.
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Don't Miss: Celebrating 100 years of the ACLU with Louise Erdrich, Brenda Child and others
One hundred years ago — on Jan. 19, 1920 — the American Civil Liberties Union was formed by a group of visionaries, including Helen Keller…
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Review: 'The Truants,' by Kate Weinberg
FICTION: A gripping debut about friends who fall under the spell of their maverick teacher.
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Review: 'Children of the Land,' by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
NONFICTION: A moving memoir of life as an undocumented immigrant.
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Review: 'A House in the Mountains,' by Caroline Moorehead
NONFICTION: The last book in the Resistance quartet highlights the work of intrepid women partisans in Italy.
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REVIEW: 'Race Against Time,' by Jerry Mitchell
NONFICTION: An investigative journalist digs into unsolved murders in the 1960s South.
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Bookmark: Lamentation on the lost art of letter writing
The Christmas I was 9, I asked for a year’s supply of stamps. I had gotten into letter-writing in a big way, inflicting long, tediously…
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Marlon James trash-talks dead writers in new podcast
The Minnesota writer and his editor discuss their favorite--and least-favorite--dead authors.
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Review: 'Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. Kennedy,' by James H. Johnston
Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. Kennedy By James H. Johnston. (Potomac Books, 343 pages, $32.95.) Many books touching on the 1963 assassination…
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman…
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Review: 'Long Bright River,' by Liz Moore
FICTION: "Long Bright River" is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page.
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Author asks boys about sex: 'We've ... disconnected boys from their hearts'
Bestselling author Peggy Orenstein talks about her new book, "Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity."
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Review: 'How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish,' edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
NONFICTION: How Yiddish words have crept into the American vernacular.
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Review: 'The Sweet Indifference of the World,' by Peter Stamm
FICTION: An entrancing tale about a writer haunted by his past self.
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Review: 'A Long Petal of the Sea,' by Isabel Allende
FICTION: A family's flight from the bloody Spanish Civil War to a new life in Chile forms the arc of this powerful novel.
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