Granta Magazine (of New York and London) and Magers & Quinn Booksellers (of Uptown, Minneapolis) will celebrate the release of the latest issue of Granta this month with an evening of lectures, slide shows, five-minute book reviews, writing exercises and other events. Guests include Eric Hanson, a Minneapolis writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in McSweeney's, the New York Times and the New Yorker; Emily Cook of Granta; writers Alison McGhee and Brad Zellar, and Jay Peterson of Magers & Quinn. The extremely literate festivities will begin at 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Soap Factory, 518 SE. 2nd St., Minneapolis.
Also ...
• A conference on regional publishing, sponsored by the Independent Book Publishing Association and the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, will be held Aug. 14-15 in Minneapolis. Cost is $150-$175. Register at www.mipa.org.
• Turtle literary magazine is seeking submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, photography and illustrations with the theme of neighborhoods, home and sense of place. Please limit prose to 750 words. Submissions can be sent to turtlelit@earthlink.net by Sept. 1.
• "Fallibility," a collection of poetry by Elizabeth Oness of Winona, Minn., will be published in October by New Rivers Press. Oness' fiction and poetry has appeared in Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Glimmer Train and elsewhere. She has written a collection of short stories and a novel.
• "A Letter to Serafin," a new collection of poetry by Twin Cities writer John Minczeski, has been published by the University of Akron Press.
• Harry Lerner, founder of Lerner Publishing Group in Minneapolis, has published a memoir, "Tenacity Well Directed: The Inside Story of How a Publishing House Was Created and Became a Sleeping Giant in Its Field - Well, Not Exactly."
• "Our Neck of the Woods," a collection of essays compiled from 60 years of the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine, will be published next month by the University of Minnesota Press. Compiled and edited by Daniel J. Philippon of St. Paul, the book includes pieces by Sigurd Olson, Bill Holm, Paul Gruchow and many others.
