Beloved Minneapolis writer Kate DiCamillo launches yet another winning series

Beloved Minneapolis writer Kate DiCamillo launches yet another winning series

The fairy tale is about five puppets who exert a powerful pull on the people who possess them.

Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri translates herself in 'brilliant' 'Roman Stories'

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Jhumpa Lahiri
FICTION: A compelling collection of nine stories about lives under pressure in the eternal city.

Small-time thugs and big-time crooks hole up at a Minnesota lake in 'America Fantastica'

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Tim O’Brien
FICTION: Tim O'Brien's latest is a crime romp that recalls Carl Hiaasen.

Respectful biography of 'Madonna' has insights but never gets into the groove

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NONFICTION: Mary Gabriel's insider book is a mixed bag of research and platitudes.

Former City Pages writer examines the life and work of Lou Reed in bio

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NONFICTION: Will Hermes' beautifully crafted biography illuminates the life and times of a rock-and-roll outlaw.

If Sinclair Lewis isn't the best Minnesota author, who is?

September 25
Inspired by a new list, we're curious about your favorites. Louise Erdrich? Kate DiCamillo? Marcie Rendon?

Review: Talking Volumes writer Viet Thanh Nguyen says he's 'A Man of Two Faces'

September 26
NONFICTION: The Pulitzer Prize winner examines the double bind many immigrants find themselves in.
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September 29
Steve Inskeep

Review: 'Differ We Must' depicts a president — Abraham Lincoln — under pressure

NONFICTION: Steve Inskeep summons a pragmatic, moral politician who listened to, learned from and worked with his critics.
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September 26
Jessica Knoll

When a killer stalks 'Bright Young Women,' why do their stories get lost?

FICTION: Jessica Knoll's novel, inspired by Ted Bundy's crimes, puts the women at its center.
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September 25
Jo Nesbo

Supposedly scary, 'The Night House' just tries too hard

FICTION: The latest from Jo Nesbø is a change of pace, for better and mostly worse.
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September 25
Elizabeth Hand

Review: Scary new book is a sequel to Shirley Jackson's 1959 'The Haunting of Hill House'

FICTION: Elizabeth Hand's "A Haunting on the Hill" keeps the scares coming in a creepy, deserted mansion.
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September 21
Benjamin Percy, a novelist who lives in Northfield, will join Nathan Hill to discuss their new novels at Magers & Quinn.

Benjamin Percy and Nathan Hill talk books, Minnesota

They're debuting novels "The Sky Vault" and "Wellness."
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September 21
Ann Patchett

Talking Volumes author Ann Patchett on Kate DiCamillo, 'Cats' and the novel that went disastrously wrong

The best-selling author says all her books are about the same thing.
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September 21
Ron Rash

A huge lie tests the friendship of two men who love one woman in Ron Rash's 'The Caretaker'

FICTION: A gripping novel about a shocking act of deception that keeps two lovers apart during the Korean War era.
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September 20
Ben Johnson, Minneapolis’ first director of the new department of Arts & Cultural Affairs, is helping launch the city and the Loft Literary Center�

Could you be Minneapolis' first poet laureate?

Now hiring: The city and the Loft are searching for an advocate for poetry.
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September 20
Ayana Mathis

Generational trauma dogs a family in 'ardent, ambitious' 'The Unsettled'

FICTION: A mother and son struggle to create new lives in Ayana Mathis' novel.
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September 20
Eliza Clark

Four girls go to the beach but just three come back in novel 'Penance'

FICTION: An insightful look at the causes and consequences of our true crime obsession.
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September 19
Eddie Chuculate

Despite poverty and a few missteps, 'This Indian Kid' turned out pretty well

NONFICTION: Star Tribune copy editor Eddie Chuculate's memoir is the "charming" tale of a triumph over long odds.
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September 18
This view shows the Chicago Courthouse and downtown in the aftermath of the fire in 1871. AP did not have photographers at the time of the Chicago fir

7 shocking books about real-life fires — in Hinckley, Minn., Chicago and Montana

NONFICTION: Scott W. Berg's "The Burning of the World," about the Great Chicago Fire, joins an exceptional list.
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September 18
Matt Patterson (from left), Sy Montgomery and friends.

'Of Time and Turtles' has lots to teach us about compassion and nature

NONFICTION: Sy Montgomery's tale of turtle rescues is a cousin to her "The Soul of an Octopus."
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September 14
Simon Schama

A historical look at the men and women who helped us understand pandemics

NONFICTION: Simon Schama's "Foreign Bodies" eloquently maps the historical breakthrough of epidemiology.
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September 14
David Diop

A formerly enslaved woman gets her revenge in 'Beyond the Door of No Return'

FICTION: Notebooks left behind by a French botanist shed light on a dark period in Senegalese history.
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September 13
Richard Osman

Murder-solving octogenarians solve crimes in 'The Last Devil to Die'

FICTION: Richard Osman's "Thursday Murder Club" series keeps getting better.
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September 12
Jayne Anne Phillips

A mother and child desperately search for shelter after the Civil War in 'Night Watch'

FICTION: The chaos of war is reflected in the lives of Jayne Anne Phillips' memorable characters.
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September 11
Daniel Mason

Want a great fall read? Check out 'North Woods'

FICTION: Daniel Mason's book is a playful, inventive history of a Massachusetts house.
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September 11
Jess Lourey’s new thriller, “The Taken Ones,” is out this week. She has four separate writing spaces in the four-story Minneapolis home her frie

Minneapolis mystery author uses humor to counter the brutality in her books

Jess Lourey's latest thriller is "The Taken Ones."
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September 7
Author Abraham Verghese tracked the many characters in his new novel “The Covenant of Water” on a white board in his living-room-turned-office.

Doctor-turned-author Abraham Verghese is back with an epic novel and a Talking Volumes appearance

"The Covenant of Water" flows from the lives of Verghese's family matriarchs, plus his beliefs formed over a lifetime in medicine.

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