Over the next five months, Club Book will bring eight writers to metro libraries, including New York Times best-selling authors Cheryl Strayed, John Sandford, Arthur Phillips and Pam Houston.
Club Book is a program of the Metropolitan Library Service Agency, funded in part through Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. All events are free and open to the public.
Here's the lineup:
Pam Houston: 7 p.m. Feb. 5, Maplewood Library, 3025 Southlawn Dr., Maplewood. Houston, author of "Cowboys Are My Weakness" and "Waltzing the Cat," is a novelist, essayist, editor and teacher. Her new novel is "Contents May Have Shifted."
Lorna Landvik: 7 p.m. Feb. 28, Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Av., Prior Lake, and 2 p.m. April 21, Chanhassen Library, 7711 Kerber Blvd., Chanhassen. Landvik, who lives in the Twin Cities, is the best-selling author of "Patty Jane's House of Curl," "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" and other novels.
Li-Young Lee: 7 p.m. March 18, St. Anthony Park Library, 2245 Como Av., St. Paul. Li-Young Lee is a poet and memoirist, the author of "Behind My Eyes" and "The City in Which I Love You," winner of the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection. His memoir, "The Winged Seed," won an American Book Award.
Cheryl Strayed: 7 p.m. March 19, Central Park Amphitheater, 8595 Central Park Pl., Woodbury, and 7 p.m. March 20, Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Av., Apple Valley. Strayed, who grew up near McGregor, Minn., and attended the University of Minnesota, is the author of "Wild," a memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. The book was an Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection and has been optioned for film. She is also the author of "Tiny Beautiful Things" and "Torch."
Arthur Phillips: 7 p.m. April 18, Stillwater Public Library, 224 3rd St. N., Stillwater. Phillips was born in Minneapolis and is the author of five novels, including "Egyptologist," "Prague" and "The Song Is You." His most recent novel is "The Tragedy of Arthur," about the supposed discovery of a lost Shakespeare play.
