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Navigating the Wordplay festival: Writers not to miss
Stephen King is just one of 100-plus writers at the inaugural book fest. Here's our guide to navigating the array of alternatives, geared to your interests.
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Ruth Reichl's memoir shows the egregious excess of Gourmet magazine
A new memoir by its former editor-in-chief shines a light on the world of high-end magazines -- before the financial market tanked.
Music
Re-live the 1980s heyday of Minnesota music and comedy in a new photo book
Writer Martin Keller and photographer Greg Helgeson walked "the thin-grooved line between fandom and journalism," as chronicled in "Hijinx and Hearsay."
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Review: 'What My Mother and I Don't Talk About,' edited by Michele Filgate
NONFICTION: This collection of artful essays about sensitive subjects speaks volumes.
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Wordplay is coming. Here's how you can get involved in Twin Cities' biggest book festival
Everything you need to know about the inaugural Wordplay festival next weekend in Minneapolis.
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Reviews: 'Pictures of Longing,' by Sigrid Lien, and 'When Brooklyn Was Queer,' by Hugh Ryan
More than 250 remarkable photos taken mostly by Norwegians show lives of immigrants.
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Review: 'The Club,' by Takis Wurger, translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
FICTION: A young boxer confronts privilege and seeks revenge in this gripping, globally acclaimed debut.
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Review: 'Mama's Boy: A Story From Our Americas,' by Dustin Lance Black
NONFICTION: Oscar winner recalls childhood of hardship and abuse and seeks healing.
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Review: 'The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm,' by John Connell
NONFICTION: A young man returns to his family's farm in Ireland to face his past and his future.
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We want your stories about lending (and borrowing) books
It's painful to give up beloved books, even briefly. And yet it's more painful not to share them.
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Review: 'Under Purple Skies,' edited by Frank Bures
ANTHOLOGY: An undefinable city gets an anthology that shows its breadth.
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Northfield, Minn., high school student wins national poetry competition
Northfield high school student wins national poetry competition.
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Tommy Orange, Ann Patchett coming to Pen Pals
The 2019-2020 lecture series will also include Susan Orlean, Esi Edugyan and Reza Aslan.
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Ed Pavlic explores the hometown ties that bind in 'Another Kind of Madness'
FICTION: The pleasure of music and ache of language drive poet and scholar's first novel.
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Writer Anna Quindlen lights up the library
Speaking about her new memoir, "Nanaville," at Talk of the Stacks, the Pulitzer Prize-winner addressed the broader world of books and writing.
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Review: 'The Old Drift,' by Namwali Serpell
FICTION: A rich debut focused on family covers plenty of imaginative ground.
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- Nothing compares: Sinead O'Connor memoir coming out in June
- For Japan's star poet Tanikawa, it's fun, not work, at 90
- Aliu lands book deal on how he confronted racism in hockey
- Chris Hillman's musical life from Byrds to Burritos and more
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- Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump's presidency
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- 'Devil in the White City' author Erik Larson returns with 'The Demon of Unrest'
- Spring's hot gift book features gorgeous found-nature photos
- Of course you love your pooch but 'Dogland' wonders if she loves you back
- 'Magpie Murders' creator Anthony Horowitz wrote 'Close to Death' and is a (dopey) character in it
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