Rain Taxi likes to tease us (in a good way), leaking out the names of some of the writers who will be in town for the annual Twin Cities Book Festival, leaking out a few more a little later...
The festival takes place over one busy, frenetic, inspiring, heady day in October --this year, it will Saturday Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the State Fairgrounds. More names will be released later, including Minnesota writers, but here's a partial list of guests, and it's a good one:
Jabari Asim: Poet, playwright, novelist, journalist, critic, editor, and more. Author of the story collection, "A Taste of Honey," and the novel, "Only the Strong," published earlier this year.
Christian Bok: Canadian poet and very experimental writer. He's known for "Eunoia," in which the five chapters each use only one vowel.
Susan Cheever: novelist, biographer, memoirist. Her new book is "Drinking in America."
Ales Debeljak, Slovenian poet, essayist and cultural critic.
Brian Henry, poet, literary critic and translator. HE has received the Best Translated Book Award and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award.
Laila Lalami: fiction and criticism. Her novel, "The Moor's Account," was a Pulitzer finalist.
