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Readers offer advice for digging out from a reading slump
These slumps hit us all from time to time. Here's how some folks get back to the books.
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Tracy K. Smith will headline this season's Talk of the Stacks
The free literary events at Mpls. Central Library will also feature the Star Tribune art critic, Alicia Eler.
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Graywolf Press has 5 books on PEN Literary Awards shortlists
The Minneapolis publisher is on a roll, with two books in the running for the PEN/Jean Stein best book of the year award.
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Third – and final? – 'Maze Runner' episode loses its way
Energetic start to "The Death Cure" turns into a chaotic, overwhelming ending.
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Decorate your Little Free Library for winter and win a prize
"Ice Your Library" invites you to gussy up your library with ice and snow in hopes of a $200 gift card.
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Mpls. publisher Graywolf Press leads the pack of national book finalists
Carmen Maria Machado's "Her Body and Other Parties" wins the National Book Critics Circle award for best debut book of the year. The lifetime achievement award will go to John McPhee. Other winners will be announced in March.
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Three new books celebrate the homes of other cultures
Authors turn to other countries to show us how to make our lives more beautiful and simple.
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Review: 'Fire Sermon,' by Jamie Quatro
FICTION: This magnificent debut novel explores inner conflict.
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Review: 'The Stowaway,' by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
NONFICTION: The tale of a young stowaway to Antarctica illuminates American culture as it emerges from the 1920s.
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Review: 'Himalaya Bound,' by Michael Benanav
NONFICTION: A nomadic tribe attempts its annual migration despite government opposition.
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Review: 'Peculiar Ground' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
FICTION: A walled English estate is the setting and subject of a sprawling historical novel.
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Review: 'The Milk Lady of Bangalore,' by Shoba Narayan
NONFICTION: A New Yorker returns home to India and develops a newfound respect for cows.
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- 'Devil in the White City' author Erik Larson returns with 'The Demon of Unrest'
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