Talking Volumes

  • This is the 12th season of the community-wide book club and reading series. Talking Volumes brings high-profile authors to to the Twin Cities for a live interview, later broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio, and profiles the writers in the Star Tribune.

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Colson Whitehead

Stacy Schiff

Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan.

Channy Moon Casselle

Jennifer Egan appears Sept. 14 on Talking Volumes

Nora Ephron

Jonathan Franzen

Author Wally Lamb

Author James Ellroy at his home

  • Ellroy Confidential

    Article By: Neal Justin , Star Tribune Publish September 20, 2009 2:00 AM / Update March 23, 2011 3:41 PM

    He lives like a monk and swears like a sailor. He worships Beethoven and doesn't own a computer. For novelist James Ellroy, fierceness and stamina are required to reveal giant lies and tell big stories.

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Author, director, producer, screenwriter Nora Ephron

  • Nora, Inc.

    Article By: COLIN COVERT , Star Tribune Publish November 14, 2010 2:00 AM / Update November 17, 2010 7:19 AM

    A one-woman creative dynamo, Nora Ephron learned from her screenwriter mother that, in the lives of writers, "everything is copy."

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Monica Ali

Stephen King

  • Inside King's dome

    Article By: james lileks , Star Tribune Publish November 15, 2009 2:00 AM / Update March 23, 2011 3:39 PM

    A mesmerizing master of the macabre, Stephen King finds inspiration for his 51st novel, "Under the Dome," in human frailty.

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Barbara Kingsolver

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