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Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize winner and dissident, released from Chinese prison
Liu Xiaobo's "June Fourth Elegies" was published by Graywolf Press
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St. Paul is throwing a big party for F. Scott Fitzgerald, and you're invited
International conference honors native Minnesotan and Jazz Age writer.
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Review: 'Anything Is Possible,' by Elizabeth Strout
FICTION: Connections of small-town life weave web that is suffocating and affirming.
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Review: 'The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley,' by Hannah Tinti
FICTION: Hannah Tinti defies curse of "second novel slump."
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Review: 'There Your Heart Lies,' by Mary Gordon
FICTION: A young Catholic woman sees atrocities, then recalls them late in life to her beloved granddaughter.
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REVIEW: "Small Hours" by Jennifer Kitses
FICTION: A novel told over 24 hours tells a taut tale of marriage under pressure.
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Review: 'A House Among the Trees,' by Julia Glass
FICTION: The complicated legacy of a beloved children's book author is revealed.
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Review: 'The Accomplished Guest,' stories by Ann Beattie
FICTION: Ann Beattie focuses on time running out in her new collection of short stories.
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REVIEW: 'The Jersey Brothers,' by Sally Mott Freeman
NONFICTION: A sweeping account of one family's determined effort to find a prisoner of war and bring him home.
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REVIEW: '1944 Diary,' by Hans Keilson, translated from the German by Damion Searls
NONFICTION: Novelist Hans Keilson's diary reveals a man tormented by language and love, even while in hiding.
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Review: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: The Writer and His Friends at Home,' by Dave Page with photographs by Jeff Krueger
NONFICTION: This big, lavish book explores the St. Paul streets that F. Scott Fitzgerald called home.
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Author Marlon James critiques Minnesota racism with viral Facebook post
The St. Paul author writes about what it is like to be black in Minnesota.
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REVIEW: 'Our Short History,' by Lauren Grodstein
FICTION: Lauren Grodstein's poignant new novel unfolds as a letter from a dying mother to her to her young son.
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Review: 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me,' by Sherman Alexie
NONFICTION: In this memoir, Sherman Alexie paints a frank and unflinching eulogy of his mother.
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REVIEW: 'The Prisoner in His Palace,' by Will Bardenwerper
NONFICTION: An intriguing portrait of the military policemen who guarded the Iraqi leader before his execution.
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