Meanwhile, at the U....

Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Seriously. I am telling you. Do not go shaking any sticks around in these parts, because you're sure to hit a writer, and we do not want to hit any writers.

 But here comes another list, another writers' series, this time the English@Minnesota series at the University of Minnesota, which runs in October and November:

First up, the tall and fascinating Bonnie Jo Campbell, who will read at 7 p.m. Oct. 3 at the University Bookstore in Coffman Union. Campbell, who lives in Michigan, is the author of "American Salvage," a finalist for a National Book Award, and "Once Upon a River." (She was here a couple of years ago, reading at the Loft, and here's how it went.)

Poet David Wojahn will read at the Rain Taxi Review Twin Cities Book Festival on Oct. 12, held at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Wojahn grew up in St. Paul and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize last year from the Academy of American Poets.

On Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m., Katherine Boo will discuss her highly acclaimed book of narrative journalism, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers," winner of a National Book Award. This event will be in the Coffman Union Theater.

Oct. 29 will be the sixth annual Hunger Relief Benefit, hosted by Charles Baxter. This year, novelist Robert Boswell (whose latest book, "Tumbledown," was just published by Graywolf Press) will join poet Peter Campion to read and raise money for Second Harvest Heartland. This will be at 7 p.m. University Hall in McNamara Alumni Center. Bring a monetary donation for the food shelf.

Daisy Fried. Photo by Pierce Backes.

Daisy Fried and Josh Weiner will read at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Weisman Art Museum on campus. Fried is a poet and critic, and Weiner is a poet and the editor of "At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn."

Thomas Mallon will round out the season with a reading at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 at the Weisman. Mallon is a novelist, essayist and critic and the author of "Henry and Clara," and "Watergate," among other books.